Новинки Шерман Алекси

Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie explores some of the major issues of our time: the pull between the urban and the rural, the future and the past; the trials and tribulations of young adulthood; the comlex density of daily life. A modern mythmaker with a sharp eye for irony, Sherman Alexie's focus is an American Indian reservation, but his playground is the world.

Что самое паршивое в жизни в нищей индейской резервации? Ну, кроме того, что в животе в основном пусто, дома нет денег, а одноклассники ежедневно лупят не по-детски? А то, что всем, кроме разве что семьи, плевать на тебя, на твои мечты и стремления – всё равно рано или поздно возьмешься за бутылку и помрешь какой-нибудь нелепой смертью, как все индейцы…Но Арнольд Спирит Младший не готов к такому раскладу – он мечтает вырваться из родной резервации и попасть туда, где перед ним, индейцем, наконец-то забрезжит надежда. Вот только бывают ли исключения из правил?

В этом наполовину автобиографическом романе Шерман Алекси – коренной американец – рассказал историю своего детства: каково было расти в нищей индейской резервации, а затем набраться смелости и уйти оттуда в школу для белых, чтобы стать кем-то больше, чем бедный индейский мальчишка. За этот честный, полный горького юмора и надежды роман Шерман Алекси получил мировое признание и Национальную книжную премию США в номинации «Детская литература» 2007 года.

Книгу озвучил актёр кино и театра «Мастерская Петра Фоменко» Александр Мичков.

Что самое паршивое в жизни в нищей индейской резервации? Ну, кроме того, что в животе в основном пусто, дома нет денег, а одноклассники ежедневно лупят не по-детски? А то, что всем, кроме разве что семьи, плевать на тебя, на твои мечты и стремления —всё равно рано или поздно возьмешься за бутылку и помрешь какой-нибудь нелепой смертью, как все индейцы...Но Арнольд…

A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award winner. When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this stunning memoir. Featuring 78 poems, 78 essays and intimate family photographs, Alexie shares raw, angry,…

Błyskotliwa opowieść o dojrzewaniu i sile przyjaźni, która zręcznie przeplata zabawne tresści z odrobiną zadumy nad ludzkim losem.

Nastoletni Arnold Spirit wiedzie nudne życie w zabiedzonym rezerwacie Indian Spokane, rysując karykatury, dowcipne historyjki komiksowe i wspólnie ze swoim rówieśnikiem, przyjacielem o imieniu Rowdy, komentuje prześmiewczo codzienne sprawy. Kiedy jeden z nauczycieli namawia Arnolda, aby koniecznie zaczął dążyć do lepszej przyszłości i uciekł od otaczającej go beznadziei, Arnold przenosi się do szkoły w mieście i natychmiast staje się wyrzutkiem we własnej społeczności oraz dziwadłem wśród nowych znajomych.
Arnold przeżywa typowe rozterki nastolatka, czasami odnosi triumfy, kiedy indziej zaś ponosi porażki, a jego pamiętnik staje się uniwersalną kroniką dorastania chłopca, który próbuje przeciwstawić się losowi.

From New York Times bestselling author Sherman Alexie and Caldecott Honor winning Yuyi Morales comes a striking and beautifully illustrated picture book celebrating the special relationship between father and son.

Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as big Thunder, but little thunder doesn't want to share a name. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder.

But just when Little Thunder thinks all hope is lost, dad picks the best name...Lightning! Their love will be loud and bright, and together they will light up the sky.

Sherman Alexie’s stature as a writer of stories, poems, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed stories from the last two decades, from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner award-winning War Dances, have established him as a star in modern literature.

A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring, versatile, funny, and outrageous Alexie showcases all his talents in his newest collection, Blasphemy, where he unites fifteen beloved classics with fifteen new stories in one sweeping anthology for devoted fans and first-time readers.

Included here are some of his most esteemed tales, including "What You Pawn I Will Redeem," "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” "The Toughest Indian in the World,” and "War Dances.” Alexie’s new stories are fresh and quintessential—about donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, the reservation, marriage, and all species of contemporary American warriors.

An indispensable collection of new and classic stories, Blasphemy reminds us, on every thrilling page, why Sherman Alexie is one of our greatest contemporary writers and a true master of the short story.

Fresh off his National Book Award win, Alexie delivers a heartbreaking, hilarious collection of stories that explores the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large. With unparalleled insight into the minds of artists, laborers, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change. In a bicoastal journey through the consequences of both simple and monumental life choices, Alexie introduces us to personal worlds as they transform beyond return. In the title story, a famous writer must decide how to care for his distant father who is slowly dying a “natural Indian death” from alcohol and diabetes, just as he learns that he himself may have a brain tumor. Alexie dissects a vintage-clothing store owner’s failing marriage and his courtship of a married photographer in various airports across the country; what happens when a politician’s son commits a hate crime; and how a young boy discovers his self-worth while writing obituaries for his local newspaper. Brazen and wise, War Dances takes us to the heart of what it means to be human. This provocative new work is Alexie at the height of his powers.

In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own…

In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experience and chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he seems destined to live.