Вручение 2010 г.
Страна: США
Место проведения: город Бостон
Дата проведения: 2010 г.
Художественная литература
Лауреат
Джон Пипкин
0.0
Woodsburner springs from a little-known event in the life of one of Americaâ€s most iconic figures, Henry David Thoreau. On April 30, 1844, a year before he built his cabin on Walden Pond, Thoreau accidentally started a forest fire that destroyed three hundred acres of the Concord woods—an event that altered the landscape of American thought in a single day.
Against the background of Thoreauâ€s fire, Pipkinâ€s ambitious debut penetrates the mind of the young philosopher while also painting a panorama of the young nation at a formative moment. Pipkinâ€s Thoreau is a lost soul, plagued by indecision, resigned to a career designing pencils for his fatherâ€s factory while dreaming of better things. On the day of the fire, his path will intersect with three very different local citizens, each of whom also harbors a secret dream. Oddmund Hus, a lovable Norwegian farmhand, pines for the wife of his brutal employer. Elliott Calvert, a prosperous bookseller, is also a hilariously inept aspiring playwright. And Caleb Dowdy preaches fire and brimstone to his congregation through an opium haze. Each of their lives, like Thoreauâ€s, is changed forever by the fire.
Like Geraldine Brooksâ€s March and Colm TóibÃnâ€s The Master, Woodsburner illuminates Americaâ€s literary and cultural past with insight, wit, and deep affection for its unforgettable characters, as it brings to vivid life the complex man whose writings have inspired generations
Документальная литература
Лауреат
Винсент Дж. Каннато
0.0
For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday—from 1892 to 1924—coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world has ever seen, with some twelve million immigrants inspected at its gates. In American Passage, Vincent J. Cannato masterfully illuminates the story of Ellis Island from the days when it hosted pirate hangings witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers in the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century when massive migrations sparked fierce debate and hopeful new immigrants often encountered corruption, harsh conditions, and political scheming.
American Passage captures a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic and bittersweet accounts of the immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all play an important role in Ellis Island's chronicle. Cannato traces the politics, prejudices, and ideologies that surrounded the great immigration debate, to the shift from immigration to detention of aliens during World War II and the Cold War, all the way to the rebirth of the island as a national monument. Long after Ellis Island ceased to be the nation's preeminent immigrant inspection station, the debates that once swirled around it are still relevant to Americans a century later.
In this sweeping, often heart-wrenching epic, Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American.
Книга для подростков и юношества
Лауреат
Грейс Лин
4.6
В долине Бесплодной реки живет девочка по имени Миньли. Целыми днями она вместе с родителями гнет спину на рисовом поле, а по вечерам папа рассказывает ей причудливые сказки про Нефритовую Дракониху и Лунного Старца. Девочка отправляется на поиски Лунного Старца, чтобы спросить его, как ей изменить судьбу своей семьи…
Грейс Лин написала чудесный роман о счастье, о семейных узах и о настоящей дружбе. «Где гора говорит с луной» - это приключенческая история в классической традиции «Волшебника страны Оз», основанная на китайском фольклоре.
Лин сама проиллюстрировала сказку великолепными цветными рисунками, и у неё получилась поистине завораживающая детская книга.
