Home Leave: A Novel
Autor Brittani Sonnenbergen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 mai 2015
Chris Kriegstein is a man on the move, with a career that catapults his family across the globe. For his wife, Elise, the hardship of chronic relocation is soothed by the allure of reinvention. But it's the Kriegstein daughters, Leah and Sophie, who face the most tumult. With each new move, the girls find they can count on only one thing: the consoling, confounding presence of each other.
When the family suffers an unimaginable loss, they can't help but wonder: Was it meant to be, or did one decision change their lives forever? Called "stark but sweet, warm and wise" by theMinneapolis Star Tribune, HOME LEAVE chases this wildly loveable family through the excitement and anguish of their journeys around the world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781455548330
ISBN-10: 1455548332
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 133 x 206 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10: 1455548332
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 133 x 206 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
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Notă biografică
Brittani
Sonnenbergwas
raised
across
three
continents
and
has
worked
as
a
journalist
in
Germany,
China,
and
throughout
Southeast
Asia.
A
graduate
of
Harvard,
she
received
her
MFA
in
fiction
from
the
University
of
Michigan.
Her
fiction
has
been
published
inThe
O.
Henry
Prize
Stories
2008as
well
asPloughshares,
Short
Fiction,
andAsymptote.
Her
nonfiction
has
appeared
inTime,
Associated
Press,Minneapolis
Star
Tribune,
and
NPR
Berlin.
HOME
LEAVE
is
her
first
novel.
Recenzii
"A
lyrical
meditation
on
loss,
geographical
place,
expatriate
experience,
sibling
rivalry,
family,
and
growing
up.
Sonnenberg
writes
with
clarity
about
the
messiness
of
the
expat
Kriegstein
family's
lives.
.
.
.
Sonnenberg
captures
beautifully
what
it's
like
to
grow
up
as
an
American
abroad,
not
as
a
tourist
but
not
fully
as
a
native
either."—Cleaver
Magazine
"[An] inventive debut . . . Captures the everywhere-but-nowhere paradoxes of our global world."—Vogue.com(A "Summer Book" selection)
"[A] striking debut."—Bethanne Patrick, Washingtonian ("A Top 10 Book for June")
"Emotionally charged . . . The Kreigsteins are such authentic and complex characters that readers will be captivated by all of them."—Real Simple("The Best Books of 2014")
"Stark but sweet, warm and wise,Home Leaveis an ambitious, well-executed debut. . . [it] will leave many readers hoping for another Sonnenberg novel full of the same humor, compassion and honesty."—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"HOME LEAVE announces the debut of a writer to be reckoned with. . . . A moving multiple-narrative exploration of the life of a peripatetic family torn asunder by the death in the family. . . . Sonnenberg explores each character's inner and outer world with psychological acuity. . . . Sonnenberg [is] a writer of boundless creativity, polished prose, and impressive insight produced by her own world travels and wide range of experiences."—ReadHerLikeanOpenBook.com
"The lucidity of Sonnenberg's prose . . . is notable for its stark honesty and sharply observed details. . . . [An] ambitious debut."—Kirkus Reviews
"Sonnenberg delivers a sympathetic, funny debut."—Publishers Weekly
"Sonnenberg writes like a house on fire. The opening chapter alone is worth the price of this book."—ReadHerLikeanOpenBook.wordpress.com
"HOME LEAVE is a rich, lively novel. Original in conception and set in various continents, it describes migrations as a contemporary existential condition. More importantly, it shows how this condition effects change, loss, and growth in the migrants. It offers many insights that are true."—Ha Jin, National Book Award winner for Waiting
"It's hard to believe that this astonishing novel is Brittani Sonnenberg's first--she writes about family with wisdom, humor, and native daring. Here is Persephone's journey, undertaken by an entire family, the Kriegsteins, who ricochet through time zones, moving from Berlin to Singapore to Wisconsin to Shanghai to Atlanta, together and alone. Sonnenberg's prose is so vital and so enchanting that you will read this book in the dilated state of a world-traveler, with all of your senses wide open. Her family members are so well-drawn and complex that you'll close this book certain they exist."—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove
"A captivatingtour de forcethat follows a nomadic family across generations and continents."—filmmaker Wim Wenders
"Brittani Sonnenberg, like the best storytellers, shows us what we carry and what we leave behind as we travel across time zones (from America to Germany to Singapore), as we sit in airports, alone with the aloneness, as we love, live, grieve, and then try to live once more. Authentic, beautiful, bravely-told, HOME LEAVE is alive with characters you want to protect and hold-characters you won't want to leave behind."—Nami Mun, author of Miles from Nowhere
"HOME LEAVE is a remarkable debut, notable for the insightful intimacy of its characterization and a restless formal invention which perfectly evokes the uncertainties of expatriate life."—Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl
"[An] inventive debut . . . Captures the everywhere-but-nowhere paradoxes of our global world."—Vogue.com(A "Summer Book" selection)
"[A] striking debut."—Bethanne Patrick, Washingtonian ("A Top 10 Book for June")
"Emotionally charged . . . The Kreigsteins are such authentic and complex characters that readers will be captivated by all of them."—Real Simple("The Best Books of 2014")
"Stark but sweet, warm and wise,Home Leaveis an ambitious, well-executed debut. . . [it] will leave many readers hoping for another Sonnenberg novel full of the same humor, compassion and honesty."—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"HOME LEAVE announces the debut of a writer to be reckoned with. . . . A moving multiple-narrative exploration of the life of a peripatetic family torn asunder by the death in the family. . . . Sonnenberg explores each character's inner and outer world with psychological acuity. . . . Sonnenberg [is] a writer of boundless creativity, polished prose, and impressive insight produced by her own world travels and wide range of experiences."—ReadHerLikeanOpenBook.com
"The lucidity of Sonnenberg's prose . . . is notable for its stark honesty and sharply observed details. . . . [An] ambitious debut."—Kirkus Reviews
"Sonnenberg delivers a sympathetic, funny debut."—Publishers Weekly
"Sonnenberg writes like a house on fire. The opening chapter alone is worth the price of this book."—ReadHerLikeanOpenBook.wordpress.com
"HOME LEAVE is a rich, lively novel. Original in conception and set in various continents, it describes migrations as a contemporary existential condition. More importantly, it shows how this condition effects change, loss, and growth in the migrants. It offers many insights that are true."—Ha Jin, National Book Award winner for Waiting
"It's hard to believe that this astonishing novel is Brittani Sonnenberg's first--she writes about family with wisdom, humor, and native daring. Here is Persephone's journey, undertaken by an entire family, the Kriegsteins, who ricochet through time zones, moving from Berlin to Singapore to Wisconsin to Shanghai to Atlanta, together and alone. Sonnenberg's prose is so vital and so enchanting that you will read this book in the dilated state of a world-traveler, with all of your senses wide open. Her family members are so well-drawn and complex that you'll close this book certain they exist."—Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove
"A captivatingtour de forcethat follows a nomadic family across generations and continents."—filmmaker Wim Wenders
"Brittani Sonnenberg, like the best storytellers, shows us what we carry and what we leave behind as we travel across time zones (from America to Germany to Singapore), as we sit in airports, alone with the aloneness, as we love, live, grieve, and then try to live once more. Authentic, beautiful, bravely-told, HOME LEAVE is alive with characters you want to protect and hold-characters you won't want to leave behind."—Nami Mun, author of Miles from Nowhere
"HOME LEAVE is a remarkable debut, notable for the insightful intimacy of its characterization and a restless formal invention which perfectly evokes the uncertainties of expatriate life."—Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl