Bøger af Jaimy Gordon

Fiction. Translation. "Marie Beig's HERMINE is a heartbreaking bestiary, a human life told in sixty-four animals. The book's design is apt, since its protagonist elicits less regard from her farm family than its animals do. Imagine a world in which your first memories are of your 'father's bad-tempered scowl and the angry faces of sisters and brothers who were struck and struck back.' A world in which tenderness is 'always turning away again to someone else' -- -Jim Shepard. Translated from the German by Jaimy Gordon.

Tommy Hansel har en plan: Ryk ubemærket ind på Indian Mounds galopbanen i West Virginia, lad fire heste – som alle er bedre, end de ser ud – stille op til høje odds, indkasser præmiepengene og væddemålene og stik af igen, før nogen lugter lunten.Men på et lille sted som Indian Mounds bliver Tommys plan gennemskuet af alle: den gamle, farvede staldmand Medicine Ed, smeden Kidstuff, den belevne lånehaj Two-Tie og de to trænere, mandekvinden Deucey Gifford og den skræmmende stortræner Joe Dale Bigg. Alle lever de af kick’et fra det næste løb og det næste væddemål og håbet om den gevinst, der endegyldigt kan ændre deres tilværelse. Jaimy Gordon fik USA’s fornemste litterære pris, The National Book Award, for denne rå og poetiske roman, som gennem et år og fire løb følger nogle sårede og ensomme skæbner på og omkring en tredjerangs galopbane i Midtvesten.

Vladimir Klavdievich Arseniev (1872-1930) undertook twelve major scientific expeditions between 1902 and 1930 in the Siberian Far East, and authored some sixty works from the geographical, geological, botanical, and ethnographic data he amassed. Among these, Dersu the Trapper has earned a privileged place in Russian literature. In this Russian counterpart to The Journals of Lewis and Clark and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Arseniev combines the precise observations of a naturalist with an exciting narrative of real-life adventure. Arseniev describes three explorations in the Ussurian taiga along the Sea of Japan above Vladivostok, beginning with his first encounter of the solitary aboriginal hunter named Dersu, a member of the Gold tribe, who thereafter becomes his guide. Each expedition is beset with hardship and danger: through blizzard and flood and assorted deprivations, these two men forge an exceptional friendship in their mutual respect for the immense grandeur of the wilderness. But the bridges across language, race and culture also have limitations, and the incursion of civilization exacts its toll. Dersu the Trapper is at once a witnessing of Russia's last frontier and a poignant memoir of rare cross-cultural understanding. Originally published in 1941, this English translation is reprinted in its entirety now for the first time.