Bøger af Tracy Chevalier

Da den ghanesiske diplomatsøn Osei Kokote begynder i den fjerde skole på seks år, er han den eneste sorte dreng på hele skolen. Han ved, han bare skal overleve den første dag, så skal det nok gå­... Men Oseis tilstedeværelse skubber til de skrøbelige magtbalancer i skolegården, og inden dagen er omme, er alt for altid forandret. DEN NYE DRENG er en spændingsmættet og intens roman om racisme, venskab, intriger, jalousi og forræderi. Tracy Chevalier er verdenskendt for sine historiske romaner, særligt for PIGE MED PERLEØRERING, som kan læses på 38 forskellige sprog. "En intens fortælling om raceseparation … Det er en helt igennem fantastisk fortælling, og den har helt klart potentialet til at blive en klassiker. Derfor synes jeg også du skal gøre dig selv en tjeneste og skaffe en kopi hurtigst muligt." romeoreviews.com "Dette er en imponerende bedrift fra forfatterens side, som har ledt til et anbefalelsesværdigt værk om fordomme, manipulation og ulykkelige misforståelser." Littuna.dk "Fænomenalt godt tænkt." Bachs bøger, 4 ud af 5 stjerner "Som altid skriver Tracy Chevalier god og vedkommende, og udover racisme er temaerne eviggyldige som kærlighed, jalousi, svigt, bedrag og hævn." Bibliotekernes Lektørudtalelse

FALDNE ENGLE er en fascinerende fortælling om barnevenskaber, seksuel vækkelse og menneskelig skrøbelighed. Om en nation i forandring og om kampen for kvindernes stemmeret.Januar 1901, dagen efter dronning Victorias død: To familier mødes ved deres tilstødende gravsteder på en fashionabel London-kirkegård. Waterhouse-familien hylder den afdøde dronning og holder fast i victorianske traditioner; Coleman-familien ser frem til et mere moderne samfund. Med gensidig modvilje knyttes familierne uløseligt til hinanden, da deres døtre bliver venner bag gravstenene. Og hvad værre er, de bliver også venner med graverens snavsede søn. Det nye århundrede finder sit fodfæste, mens pigerne vokser op; automobiler erstatter heste, elektricitet overstråler gaslys, nationen løsriver sig af det knugende victorianske samfunds skygger. Og de to familiers liv forandres for altid, da den smukke, frustrerede mrs. Coleman med katastrofale følger søger at vinde større personlig frihed.

In the year of the 150th anniversary of Origin of Species, set in a town where Jane Austen was a frequent visitor, Tracy Chevalier once again shows her uncanny sense for the topical.In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye...From the moment she's struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is marked for greatness. When she uncovers unknown dinosaur fossils in the cliffs near her home, she sets the scientific world alight, challenging ideas about the world's creation and stimulating debate over our origins. In an arena dominated by men, however, Mary is soon reduced to a serving role, facing prejudice from the academic community, vicious gossip from neighbours, and the heartbreak of forbidden love. Even nature is a threat, throwing bitter cold, storms, and landslips at her.Luckily Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly, intelligent Elizabeth Philpot, a middle-class spinster who is also fossil-obsessed. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty and barely suppressed envy. Despite their differences in age and background, Mary and Elizabeth discover that, in struggling for recognition, friendship is their strongest weapon.Remarkable Creatures is Tracy Chevalier's stunning new novel of how one woman's gift transcends class and gender to lead to some of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century. Above all, it is a revealing portrait of the intricate and resilient nature of female friendship.

A brilliant historical novel on the corruption of innocence, using the famous painting by Vermeer as an inspiration.When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and, as the scandal seeps out, into the town beyond.Tracy Chevalier's extraordinary novel on the corruption of innocence and the price of genius is a contemporary classic, and has sold over two million copies worldwide.

År 1838: James og Sadie Goodenough har slået sig ned, hvor deres hestevogn sad fast. I den mudrede, stillestående sump i det nordvestlige Ohio. Sammen med deres fem børn arbejder de utrætteligt på at tæmme deres jordstykke ved at købe ungtræer fra den lokale træsælger, kendt som John Appleseed, så de kan dyrke de halvtreds æbletræer, det kræver at afmærke deres grund. Men den plantage, som de planter, lægger spiren til en lang kamp. James elsker æblerne, der minder om deres lettere vilkår i Conneticut; hvorimod Sadie foretrækker den æblebrændevin, de laver, et alkoholisk fristed fra det brutale plantageliv. År 1853: Deres yngste søn Robert vandrer gennem guldfeberramte Californien. Hvileløs og hjemsøgt af den nedbrudte familie, han efterlod, har han vandret alene gennem landet. I en lille skov af rødtræer og amerikansk kæmpefyr finder han en smule trøst ved at samle frø for en naturalist, som sælger planter fra den nye verden til gartnere i England. Men selv i Amerika er der en grænse for, hvor langt man kan løbe, og da Roberts fortid uventet haler ind på ham, må han beslutte sig for, om han vil drage videre igen eller omsider slå sig ned selv. Anmeldelser: ”Dette portræt af søskendekærlighedens ømhed er på en måde Chevaliers største bedrift.” - The Independent ”Som altid er hendes forskning omhyggeligt detaljeret.”- The Guardian”Evigt fængslende” - Financial Times "Chevalier er en talentfuld fremmaner af [forholdene i] det 19. århundredes Amerika." - New York times

”Hele mit liv er jeg blevet ramt af lynet. En enkelt gang rent bogstaveligt.”En opdagelsesrejse, et møde mellem to bemærkelsesværdige kvinder, en forunderlig tid og et særpræget sted, er baggrunden for Tracy Chevaliersfængslende nye roman. I starten af det 19. århundrede vrimler den vindomsuste engelske kyst med fossiler for folk med blik for dem. Fra det øjeblik, hvor Mary Anning som barn rammes af lynet, står det klart, at hun er udvalgt til noget stort. Da hun afdækker ukendte dinosaurfossiler i klippeskrænterne nær sit hjem, sætter hun brand i det videnskabelige samfund, udfordrer tankerne om verdens skabelse og stimulerer debatten om menneskets oprindelse. I en mandsdomineret verden bliver Mary imidlertid snart reduceret til rollen som tyende og udsættes for det akademiske samfunds fordomme, ondskabsfuld nabosladder og hjertesorg forårsaget af forbudt kærlighed. Selv naturen udgør en trussel mod hende med sin bitre kulde, sine storme og jordskred. Heldigvis finder Mary en usædvanlig allieret i den knarvorne, intelligente Elizabeth Philpot, en middelklasse-pebermø, som også er besat af fossiler. Deres forhold bygger på en skrøbelig balance mellem brændende loyalitet og slet undertrykt misundelse. På trods af deres forskelle i alder og baggrund sander Mary og Elizabeth dog, at venskab er deres stærkeste våben i kampen for anerkendelse.

"Den sidste flugt" er en gribende, historisk roman om Honor Bright, som i mange år af sit liv har levet en beskyttet tilværelse. Vi befinder os i 1850'erne, da Honor Bright beslutter sig for at flygte fra sine trygge rammer. Hendes søster skal giftes i USA, og dette bliver således også den destination, hvortil hun tager hen. Da Honors søster grundet sygdom dør ved ankomst, står Honor helt alene USA, og hun er derfor nødsaget til at finde sig en ny familie. I "Den sidste flugt" kan du læse, hvordan hun ender i Ohio, hvor man enten er tilhænger eller modstander af slaveri.

Delft, 1664. Griet bliver ansat som tjenestepige hos maleren Johannes Vermeer. Hun skal gøre rent i hans atelier. Desuden skal hun assistere Vermeers kone, Catharina, der er gravid en stor del af tiden. Det var ikke altid let at være tjenestepige i 1660ernes Holland. Som ny i huset er Griet nederst i hakkeordenen. Og hendes liv bliver ikke lettere, da Vermeer begynder at bruge hende som model. Især ikke, da han forlanger, at hun skal bære hans kones perleørering. En fascinerende fortælling bygget op omkring tilblivelsen af det kendte maleri Pige med perleørering, også kaldet Pige med turban. Et af de mest elskede af Vermeers kun ca. 40 kendte malerier. Bogen lå på den amerikanske bestsellerliste i et år.

An extraordinary story exquisitely told, Chevalier's "The Lady and the Unicorn" weaves history and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry that rivals in grace and grandeur the masterpiece that inspired it.

Griet, den unge datteren til en flismaker i 1600-tallets Nederland, får sin første jobb som tjenestejente hos maleren Vermeer. Gjennom Griets øyne forteller forfatteren om den kompliserte familien, samfunnet i den lille byen Delft, og om livet med et geni. Griet liker å bli dratt inn i dette kunstneriske livet, men det kan koste henne dyrt. Boken er filmatisert.

This collection of original stories by today's finest woman writers takes inspiration from the famous line in Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, Jane EyreA fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Brontë is revered by readers all over the world. Her books featuring unforgettable, strong heroines still resonate with millions today. And who could forget one of literature's best-known lines: ?Reader, I married him? from her classic novel Jane Eyre? Part of a remarkable family that produced three acclaimed female writers at a time in nineteenth-century Britain when few women wrote, and fewer were published, Brontë has become a great source of inspiration to writers, especially women, ever since. Now, in Reader, I Married Him, twenty of today's most celebrated woman authors have spun original stories using Jane Eyre as a springboard. Reader, I Married Him features stories by:Tracy Chevalier, Tessa Hadley, Helen Dunmore, Kirsty Gunn, Joanna Briscoe, Jane Gardam, Emma Donoghue, Susan Hill, Francine Prose, Elif Shafak, Evie Wyld, Patricia Park, Salley Vickers, Nadifa Mohamed, Esther Freud, Linda Grant, Sarah Hall, Lionel Shriver, Audrey Niffenegger, Namwali Serpell, Elizabeth McCrackenUnique, inventive, and poignant, the stories in Reader, I Married Him pay homage to the literary genius of Charlotte Brontë, and demonstrate once again that her extraordinary vision continues to inspire readers and writers.

Delft, 1664. Die junge Magd Griet wird in den Haushalt des holländischen Malers Johannes Vermeer gegeben und avanciert schnell zur Schülerin und Muse des Malers. Sie zeigt eine scheue, in Andeutungen belassene Zuneigung zu dem Künstler, dem sie schließlich Modell sitzt, was für Schikanen seitens Vermeers eifersüchtiger Gattin sorgt. Als der Maler das junge Mädchen bittet, den Perlenohrring seiner Frau für ein Porträt anzulegen, löst er eine Katastrophe aus, die Griets Zukunft bedroht.Tracy Chevalier wuchs in Washington D.C. auf. Sie studierte Englische Litera- tur und arbeitete als Lektorin. Mit ihrem Roman „Das Mädchen mit dem Perlenohrring" gelang ihr 1999 der internationale Durchbruch.

New York Timesbestselling author ofGirl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the OrchardTracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past inThe Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement.Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker, moves to Ohio in 1850--only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape.Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and unsentimental, and scarred by the continuing injustice of slavery. In her new home Honor discovers that principles count for little, even within a religious community meant to be committed to human equality.However, Honor is drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, a network helping runaway slaves escape to freedom, where she befriends two surprising women who embody the remarkable power of defiance. Eventually she must decide if she too can act on what she believes in, whatever the personal costs.

'O felt her presence behind him like a fire at his back.'Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school.

'A wonderful book; rich, evocative, original. I loved it' Joanne Harris"e;One in ten trees comes up sweet..."e;In the inhospitable Black Swamp of Ohio, the Goodenough family are barely scratching out a living. Life there is harsh, tempered only by the apples they grow for eating and for the cider that dulls their pain. Hot-headed Sadie and buttoned-up James are a poor match, and Robert and his sister Martha can only watch helplessly as their parents tear each other apart. One particularly vicious fight sends Robert out alone across America, far from his sister, to seek his fortune among the mighty redwoods and sequoias of Gold Rush California. But even across a continent, he can feel the pull of family loyalties...

'Addictively compelling' The Times'A joy to read' Maggie O'FarrellAs she watched, the darkness unfolded itself, stood and took the shape of a young black woman, barefoot, in a yellow dress. Now Honor must actually do something, though she did not yet know what.Honor Bright is a sheltered Quaker who has rarely ventured out of 1850s Dorset when she impulsively emigrates to America. Opposed to the slavery that defines and divides the country, she finds her principles tested to the limit when a runaway slave appears at the farm of her new family. In this tough, unsentimental place, where whisky bottles sit alongside quilts, Honor befriends two spirited women who will teach her how to turn ideas into action.

'A triumph. Excellent' Time Out'A beautifully crafted story shot with vivid colours' The TimesShe was called Isabelle, and when she was a small girl her hair changed colour in the time it takes a bird to call to its mate...Midwife Isabelle du Moulin is marked as different, by both her red hair and her love for the Virgin Mary in her rich blue robes. As religious fervour sweeps 16th-century France, Isabelle's striking likeness to the Madonna puts her in danger when her village is enraptured by new Protestant doctrine.Four centuries later, Ella Turner moves to the French village of Lisle-sur-Tarn and finds her dreams are haunted by the colour blue. Ella hopes to become both a midwife and a mother, but her plans unravel as she discovers her link to Isabelle, and her ancestor's shocking fate.

'A visual delight' The Times'A splendidly vital recreation of Georgian London' Sunday Times'Tell me, then: would you say you are innocent or experienced?'1792. Uprooted from their quiet Dorset village to the riotous streets of London, young Jem Kellaway and his family feel very far from home. They struggle to find their place in this tumultuous city, still alive with the repercussions of the blood-splattered French Revolution.Luckily, streetwise Maggie Butterfield is on hand to show Jem the ropes. Together they encounter the neighbour they've been warned about: radical poet and artist William Blake. Jem and Maggie's passage from innocence to experience becomes the very stuff of poetic inspiration...

'Vividly imagined' Sunday Telegraph'Sex and death meet again in [a] marvellous evocation of Edwardian England' Daily MailQueen Victoria is dead. In January 1901, the day after her passing, two very different families visit neighbouring graves in a London cemetery. The traditional Waterhouses revere the late Queen where the Colemans have a more modern outlook, but both families are appalled by the friendship that springs up between their respective daughters, Lavinia and Maude.As the girls grow up, their world changes almost beyond measure: cars are replacing horses, electric lighting is taking over from gas, and emancipation is fast approaching, to the delight of some and the dismay of others...

The new novel from the author of the much-loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels.The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning.Tapestries give an appearance of order and continuity, as if designed and made by one person, belying the complicated process required to create them. Weavers, patrons, designers, artists, merchants and apprentices were involved in their making, and behind them were the wives, daughters and servants who exercised influences over their men. Like the many strands of wool and silk woven together into one cloth, so these people came together in a complex dance to create the whole picture.Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau. Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste's wife Genevieve and his daughter Claude, both of whom take a keen interest in the tapestries. From Paris, Nicolas moves to a weaver's workshop in Brussels. The creation of the tapestries brings together people who would not otherwise meet - their lives become entangled, and so do their desires. As they fall in love, are shunned, take revenge, find unrequited love, turn to the church or to pagan ideals, the tapestries become to each an ideal vision of life - yet all discover that they are unable to make this ideal world their own.

Flammer og begravelser, cirkusforestillinger og forførelse, naboer og nøgenhed:Tracy Chevaliers nye roman, Brændende ild, gnistrer af dramatik.London 1792. Familien Kellaway flytter fra det velkendte, landlige Dorset til tumulten i en tætpakket ubarmhjertig storby.Med en by præget af nervøsitet over den stadig mere blodige franske revolution som bagtæppe skabes et overraskende bånd mellem Jem, den yngste Kellaway-dreng, og den stedkendte London-pige Maggie Butterfield. Deres venskab udvikler sig i dramatisk retning, da de vikles ind i deres nabos liv – grafikeren, digteren og den radikale tænker William Blake. Han bliver den centrale figur, da Jem og Maggie navigerer gennem den uforudsigelige og berusende overgang fra uskyld til erfaring. Deres rejse får indflydelse på et af Blakes mest fascinerende værker.Det georgianske London genskabes lige så levende i Brændende ild, som 1600 – tallets Delft blev det i Tracy Chevaliers mesterværk og bestseller 'Pige med perleørering'.

En medrivende roman om to kvinder, der er født århundreder fra hinanden, men hvis familierelationer og skæbnefællesskab knytter dem sammen. Ella Turner prøver ihærdigt på at passe ind i det lille, sammentømrede samfund i den franske landsby, som hun er flyttet til. Hun ændrer endda sit navn tilbage til Tournier. Isoleret og ensom drages hun af at undersøge sin Tournier-familiebaggrund, med et hjerteskærende resultatet. Isabelle du Moulin, kendt under navnet La Rousse på grund af sit voldsomme røde hår, hånes og skyes i sin landsby – mistænkt for heksekunst og spottet af calvinisterne for sin lighed med Jomfru Maria. Da hun bliver gravid har hun ikke andet valg end at gifte sig ind i den arrogante Tournier-familie. En chokerende skæbne venter hende – som Ella afslører fire hundrede år senere.

Det var hans livs opgave...Paris 1490. Nicolas des Innocents får til opgave at designe seks billedtapeter til adelsmanden Jean Le Viste. Nicolas går til arbejdet med stor iver. Lige så stor iver udviser han i sit forsøg på at forføre Le Vistes purunge datter, Claude. Nicolas bliver hurtigt en brik i det komplekse spil i Le Viste-husholdningen: Mellem mand og kone, forældre og børn, forførere og tyende. Det var et helt nyt design...Bruxelles 1490. Den velrenommerede billedvæver Georges de la Chapelle påtager sig at væve tæpperne. Han har aldrig tidligere sat så meget på spil for at færdiggøre en opgave. Der bliver vendt op og ned på alt i hans værksted, da den parisiske skørtejæger Nicolas dukker op. Snart er også la Chapelle-familien vævet ind i et spind af fristelse og forførelse.