Вручение апрель 2014 г.

Страна: США Место проведения: город Нью-Йорк Дата проведения: апрель 2014 г.

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In this stunning novel, Shawn Vestal transports us to the afterlife, the rugged Northwest, and the early days of Mormonism. From "The First Several Hundred Years Following My Death," an absurd, profound vision of a hellish heaven, to "Winter Elders," in which missionaries calmly and relentlessly pursue a man who has left the fold, these nine stories illuminate the articles of faith that make us human. The concluding triptych tackles the legends and legacy of Mormonism head-on, culminating in "Diviner," a seriocomic portrait of the young Joseph Smith, back when he was not yet the founder of a religion but a man hired to find buried treasure. Godforsaken Idaho is an indelible collection by the writer you need to read next. Named an 'Outstanding 2013 Short Story Collection' by The Story Prize, winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, winner of the Pushcart Prize, shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
Ханья Янагихара 3.8
71-летнего доктора Абрахама Нортона Перина, ученого-иммунолога с мировым именем, лауреата Нобелевской премии, суд приговаривает к тюремному заключению по обвинению в изнасиловании несовершеннолетнего. Газеты пестрят громкими заголовками. Многие не верят в виновность прославленного доктора. Читатель погружается в воспоминания Перины. Детство, студенческие годы, научные эксперименты и первые открытия. А затем – жизнь среди аборигенов на одном из самых далеких и загадочных микронезийских островов. Племя, которое изучает Перина, обладает секретом долголетия, а возможно, и вечной жизни. Перед человечеством открываются фантастические горизонты, правда, они далеко не безоблачны, ведь в игре с такими ставками фармакологические компании пойдут буквально на всё. Да и готова ли наша цивилизация к такому подарку?
Энтони Марра 2.0
In A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra takes us to snow-covered Chechnya during the Second Chechen War. The novel, a remarkable decade-spanning debut, opens with eight-year-old Havaa looking on as her father is dragged off by Russian soldiers for a crime he did not commit. The soldiers set fire to Havaa's home, and next-door neighbor Akhmed attempts to hide her at nearby hospital. Sonya, the doctor who runs the facility, is hesitant to harbor Havaa, as the child invites unnecessary risk to her barely functioning hospital, but both she and Akhmed realize that Havaa represents something greater than a single life: she is the key to maintaining humanity in an ethnic conflict that is absurd and unjust. "There are things a person shouldn't understand," Akhmed says. "There are things a person has a moral duty never to understand." But by the end of Vital Phenomena, we do understand--with deeply emotional characters and gripping depiction of wartorn Chechnya, Marra makes us understand. --Kevin Nguyen