Шейла Хети — новинки

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities-famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old-on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives.

It began with a survey. The editors composed a list of more than fifty questions designed to prompt women to think more deeply about their personal style. Writers, activists, and artists including Cindy Sherman, Kim Gordon, Kalpona Akter, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Tavi Gevinson, Miranda July, Roxane Gay, Lena Dunham, and Molly Ringwald answered these questions with photographs, interviews, personal testimonies, and illustrations.

Even our most basic clothing choices can give us confidence, show the connection between our appearance and our habits of mind, express our values and our politics, bond us with our friends, or function as armor or disguise. They are the tools we use to reinvent ourselves and to transform how others see us. Women in Clothes embraces the complexity of women's style decisions, revealing the sometimes funny, sometimes strange, always thoughtful impulses that influence our daily ritual of getting dressed.

Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade’s worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. After extensive edits and cuts, in a process of accumulation and connection, Alphabetical Diaries is the result.

In this intimate archive and inventive chronicle of life and living, Sheila thinks about friends, lovers, work, and sex; how thinking about sex is distracting her from work; where she should live and whom to love; and what writing means to her and why it’s the only thing that matters. Here, the self–constructed by itself–emerges in a new way, in a project that is alive, boundless, captivating.

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour.

Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. Passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are her alphabetical diaries.

What if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed?
In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira's chest like a portal - to what, she doesn't know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters that strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up.
Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling and a shape-shifting epic that is celestially bright and streaked with beauty.

Having reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will become mothers, Heti's narrator considers, with the same urgency, whether she will do so at all. Over the course of several years, under the influence of her partner, body, family, friends, mysticism and chance, she struggles to make a moral and meaningful choice.
In a compellingly direct mode that straddles the forms of the novel and the essay, Motherhood raises radical and essential questions about womanhood, parenthood, and how - and for whom - to live.

Студентка академии художественной критики по имени Мира больше всего на свете любит искусство, подрабатывает в магазине декоративных ламп, переезжает из одной сырой квартиры в другую. Внезапная встреча с загадочной отрешенной Энни и смерть заботливого отца переворачивают ее жизнь с ног на голову, заставляя увидеть себя, свои отношения с людьми и мир вокруг с совершенно новой точки зрения.

В своем новом романе Шила Хети отходит от инструментария автофикшна и погружает читателей в вымышленную, почти сказочную реальность, где абстрактное и метафизическое существует наравне с осязаемым и земным. Что если мир — всего лишь черновой набросок, которому суждено исчезнуть, чтобы Бог, научившись на ошибках, сотворил вторую версию — без изъяна, — пока люди-птицы, люди-рыбы и люди-медведи критикуют его работу и ищут невозможной близости друг с другом? Поэтичный и парадоксальный роман Шилы Хети «Чистый цвет» читается как современная притча о любви и утрате, творении и несовершенстве и о том, как трудно найти подходящую дистанцию с теми, кто нам дорог.

What if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed?
In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira's chest like a portal - to what, she doesn't know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters that strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up.
Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and a shape-shifting epic. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.

A tender and deeply moving picture book about loss and the big questions it leaves behind from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Heti and acclaimed illustrator Esmé Shapiro.

Two bunnies and a cat live happily together in a beautiful garden. But when the big bunny passes away, the little bunny is unsure how to fill the void she left behind. A strange dream prompts her to begin asking questions: Why do the creatures we love have to die, and where do we go when we die? How come life works this way? With the wisdom of the cat to guide her, the little bunny learns that missing someone is a way of keeping them close. And together they discover that the big bunny is a part of everything around them — the grass, the air, the leaves — for the world is a garden of creatures.

With its meditative text, endearing illustrations and life-affirming message, A Garden of Creatures reveals how the interconnectedness of nature and the sweetness of friendship can be a warm embrace even in the darkest times.

Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.

Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.

In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal―to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.

«Каким быть человеку?» — вопрос, на который пытается ответить героиня книги, Шила, вместе с ближайшей подругой Марго и их друзьями — современными художниками и интеллектуалами, живущими в наши дни в Торонто. Персонажи книги пытаются найти свое место в жизни, в творчестве и в отношениях с людьми, путешествуют, пробуют разные профессии, попадают в грустные и нелепые ситуации. Внезапный конфликт с лучшей подругой заставляет героиню-писательницу иначе взглянуть на себя и свою жизнь. «Каким быть человеку?» — это ироничное смешение автобиографии и вымысла, написанное дерзким, современным, ярким и образным языком. Шила Хети пишет в поисках смысла, одновременно лишая сам акт письма и язык сакрального значения. Постоянно переключаясь между прозой и драматургическим диалогом, включая в текст фрагменты имейл-переписки, она дезориентирует читателя, ломая ритм повествования всякий раз, когда он становится привычным. Правила игры в романе пересобираются снова и снова с той же серьезностью и лукавством, с которой звучит и сам заглавный вопрос в XXI веке.

Весьма причудливая, но остроумная попытка отыскать подлинность.

―Маргарет Этвуд

Шила Хети — канадская писательница, авторка книг «Каким быть человеку», «Материнство», «Чистый цвет» и других. Вошла в список пятнадцати писателей и писательниц со всего мира, которые определяют облик литературы в XXI веке по версии The New York Times. Ее книги переведены на двадцать четыре языка. Живет в Торонто.