The Rending and the Nest
Autor Kaethe Schwehnen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 mai 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781632869722
ISBN-10: 1632869721
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1632869721
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
An
of-the-moment,
engrossing,
and
ultimately
upliftingpost-apocalyptic
novel:The
Rending
and
the
Nestis
the
perfect
book
for
women
of
all
ages
and
provides
much
fodder
for
discussion,
including
the
importance
of
storytelling
and
of
building
our
own
communities,
the
strangeness
of
motherhood,
and
crises
of
faith.
Notă biografică
Kaethe
Schwehn's
first
book,Tailings:
A
Memoir,
won
the
2015
Minnesota
Book
Award
for
Creative
Nonfiction,
and
her
chapbook
of
poems,Tanka
&
Me,
was
selected
for
the
Mineral
Point
Chapbook
Series.
In
addition
to
holding
M.F.A.s
from
the
Iowa
Writers'
Workshop
and
the
University
of
Montana,
Kaethe
has
been
the
recipient
of
an
Academy
of
American
Poets
prize,
a
Minnesota
Arts
Board
grant,
and
a
Loft
Mentor
Series
award.
She
teaches
at
St.
Olaf
College
and
lives
in
Northfield,
Minnesota.
Recenzii
Schwehn
has
created
a
postapocalyptic
world
in
which
why
is
not
the
main
question.
The
Rending
happened;
accepting
that
is
the
first
step
toward
recovery
for
the
novel's
multidimensional
characters.
This
beautifully
written
story
begs
to
be
read
again.
[An] unsettling, postapocalyptic page-turner . . . Schwehn has created an intriguing and bizarre world where there are no easy answers . . . Readers will race to find out just what is happening and what it all means . . . The entertainment value is high, and those looking for a new dystopian world will be pleased.
This absorbing debut novel . . . offers a world that is intensely familiar yet strange . . . Schwehn's narrator establishes her place among post-apocalyptic heroines through her willingness to remake the world from what she has left and her unlikely arrival at hope.
Schwehn's bizarre novel blends seamless storytelling with the raw emotion of a world suddenly turned on its head . . . The story culminates in a riveting rescue mission. Schwehn's novel is nerve-wracking in the most satisfying way, and the characters are vivid enough to elevate this story above the well-traveled terrain of postapocalyptic fiction.
Why You'll Love It: Kaethe Schwehn's post-apocalyptic novel delivers thrills and drama, tackling the question of what it means to love others in a broken world.
Gripping . . . Mira is a complex, well-drawn character, by turns vulnerable and adolescent, then tough and resourceful, as everything she has ever known is ripped away and certainty is replaced by doubt.
Kaethe Schwehn vividly portrays a hostile world in which survival depends on stories shared, accepted and believed... a post-apocalyptic tale of personal acceptance and reinvention that is as compelling as it is unnerving.
However nasty the world is after the Rending, Schwehn's depiction of it is entertaining, thoughtful, and even playful. She doesn't avoid the horror of a desperate situation, but horror isn't the main point. This is a rich, smart novel that imagines an incredible alternative world.
[Schwehn] crafts her altered world with care and her characters with empathy... The ending of the novel is deeply satisfying, not because the book's mysteries are explained away, but because Mira has fully embraced her own story-- and found someone to whom to tell it. This beautiful, sad, hopeful novel is highly recommended.
The book's existential ponderings are balanced by a suspenseful plot, full-bodied characters, and juicy, sensuous writing. Schwehn is sometimes witty... or ferocious... Often her language is flat-out gorgeous... Maybe the world ofThe Rending and the Nestisn't exactly The Emerald City, but it isn't Kansas--or Minnesota -- as we know it, either. It's well worth the trip.
This post-apocalyptic page-turner expertly weaves the threads of humankind's new story . . .The Rending and the Nestleft me with indelible images of the oddities contained within its pages, and I am moved by the prose which so eloquently describes a world that contains both bizarre atrocities and an innate hope for the future.
Rarely does that collision of genre concepts, storytelling talent and big ideas result in anything as memorable, as powerful and as compelling as Kaethe Schwehn'sThe Rending and the Nest. It's a sharp, fearless narrative -- one rendered all the more impressive by the fact that it's the author's debut novel... Schwehn has done something remarkable here, creating a rich and nuanced world that exists on a very small scale... Into this sad vestigial society, Schwehn pours love and anger and jealousy, betrayal and despair and hope; it's a jumbled, complicated mess that reads as pure and true as anything you'll find in a story set after the end of the world.
[A] bewitching, eye-opening [work] that center[s] on feminism and community.
A visceral, transcendent tale about creating life out of no life in a post-apocalyptic world . . . At its core, the novel asks what it means to be human . . . Schwehn's poetic prose guides us through a story that is both terrible and wonderful, sad and content, desolate and beautiful, a story that explores the depths of human tenderness in the face of tragedy and loss.
Schwehn builds her story slowly at first, giving readers time to adjust to a world that is eerily recognizable and yet entirely foreign. As the novel develops, this slow pace gives way to a furious speed that is reflective of the ever-shifting understanding Mira and her friends have of their new world... [Explores] important questions about what it means to really live: Is surviving enough? If not, what makes a life worth living? And what stories do we tell ourselves--and one another--to make it so?
Part post-apocalyptic novel and part coming-of-age tale,The Rending and the Nesttells the story of ordinary people struggling to understand extraordinary change. It's poignant and mournful, sexy and wry. Kaethe Schwehn is a remarkable talent with a vast and wild imagination.
It is impossible to read Kaethe Schwehn's extraordinary, uncanny novel without placing yourself in the center of its circumstances. Because sometimes the world really does wobble on its axis and in an instant all that we know or have is gone. The only honest comfort we can claim as our own is the stories we call forth from the ruins.
An accomplished and mesmerizing debut packed with humor and horror and grace. Kaethe Schwehn offers up a magical, unsettling vision of the future, and in doing so joins the company of such literary dazzlers as George Saunders and Margaret Atwood.
One of the most exciting debut novels I've ever read. It beautifully illustrates the fragility of parenthood, womanhood, and our very humanity. Surreal and precise, sharp and moving, this novel joins the ranks of other genius post-apocalyptic works likeOryx and CrakeandStation Eleven. Read it and marvel.
A rich and passionate novel of page-turning intensity, an unflinching gaze into our deepest flaws, offering a way forward in the simplest of terms: love, community, humility and trust.
A necessary and luminous story about coming to terms with a ruined world. An unforgettable novel, dazzling despite its darkness. Schwehn is a brave and brilliant writer.
Schwehn'sTailings, is, like all of my favorite contemporary nonfiction, uncategorizable--part memoir, part spiritual reflection, part reportage. Brilliant in all of its guises,Tailingsonly makes me want to read more by Kaethe Schwehn. She writes with fierce intelligence and luminous clarity on all of her subjects: loss, grace, this very particular village, and the hard work of renewal.Tailingsis a beautiful and original book by a remarkable writer.
[An] unsettling, postapocalyptic page-turner . . . Schwehn has created an intriguing and bizarre world where there are no easy answers . . . Readers will race to find out just what is happening and what it all means . . . The entertainment value is high, and those looking for a new dystopian world will be pleased.
This absorbing debut novel . . . offers a world that is intensely familiar yet strange . . . Schwehn's narrator establishes her place among post-apocalyptic heroines through her willingness to remake the world from what she has left and her unlikely arrival at hope.
Schwehn's bizarre novel blends seamless storytelling with the raw emotion of a world suddenly turned on its head . . . The story culminates in a riveting rescue mission. Schwehn's novel is nerve-wracking in the most satisfying way, and the characters are vivid enough to elevate this story above the well-traveled terrain of postapocalyptic fiction.
Why You'll Love It: Kaethe Schwehn's post-apocalyptic novel delivers thrills and drama, tackling the question of what it means to love others in a broken world.
Gripping . . . Mira is a complex, well-drawn character, by turns vulnerable and adolescent, then tough and resourceful, as everything she has ever known is ripped away and certainty is replaced by doubt.
Kaethe Schwehn vividly portrays a hostile world in which survival depends on stories shared, accepted and believed... a post-apocalyptic tale of personal acceptance and reinvention that is as compelling as it is unnerving.
However nasty the world is after the Rending, Schwehn's depiction of it is entertaining, thoughtful, and even playful. She doesn't avoid the horror of a desperate situation, but horror isn't the main point. This is a rich, smart novel that imagines an incredible alternative world.
[Schwehn] crafts her altered world with care and her characters with empathy... The ending of the novel is deeply satisfying, not because the book's mysteries are explained away, but because Mira has fully embraced her own story-- and found someone to whom to tell it. This beautiful, sad, hopeful novel is highly recommended.
The book's existential ponderings are balanced by a suspenseful plot, full-bodied characters, and juicy, sensuous writing. Schwehn is sometimes witty... or ferocious... Often her language is flat-out gorgeous... Maybe the world ofThe Rending and the Nestisn't exactly The Emerald City, but it isn't Kansas--or Minnesota -- as we know it, either. It's well worth the trip.
This post-apocalyptic page-turner expertly weaves the threads of humankind's new story . . .The Rending and the Nestleft me with indelible images of the oddities contained within its pages, and I am moved by the prose which so eloquently describes a world that contains both bizarre atrocities and an innate hope for the future.
Rarely does that collision of genre concepts, storytelling talent and big ideas result in anything as memorable, as powerful and as compelling as Kaethe Schwehn'sThe Rending and the Nest. It's a sharp, fearless narrative -- one rendered all the more impressive by the fact that it's the author's debut novel... Schwehn has done something remarkable here, creating a rich and nuanced world that exists on a very small scale... Into this sad vestigial society, Schwehn pours love and anger and jealousy, betrayal and despair and hope; it's a jumbled, complicated mess that reads as pure and true as anything you'll find in a story set after the end of the world.
[A] bewitching, eye-opening [work] that center[s] on feminism and community.
A visceral, transcendent tale about creating life out of no life in a post-apocalyptic world . . . At its core, the novel asks what it means to be human . . . Schwehn's poetic prose guides us through a story that is both terrible and wonderful, sad and content, desolate and beautiful, a story that explores the depths of human tenderness in the face of tragedy and loss.
Schwehn builds her story slowly at first, giving readers time to adjust to a world that is eerily recognizable and yet entirely foreign. As the novel develops, this slow pace gives way to a furious speed that is reflective of the ever-shifting understanding Mira and her friends have of their new world... [Explores] important questions about what it means to really live: Is surviving enough? If not, what makes a life worth living? And what stories do we tell ourselves--and one another--to make it so?
Part post-apocalyptic novel and part coming-of-age tale,The Rending and the Nesttells the story of ordinary people struggling to understand extraordinary change. It's poignant and mournful, sexy and wry. Kaethe Schwehn is a remarkable talent with a vast and wild imagination.
It is impossible to read Kaethe Schwehn's extraordinary, uncanny novel without placing yourself in the center of its circumstances. Because sometimes the world really does wobble on its axis and in an instant all that we know or have is gone. The only honest comfort we can claim as our own is the stories we call forth from the ruins.
An accomplished and mesmerizing debut packed with humor and horror and grace. Kaethe Schwehn offers up a magical, unsettling vision of the future, and in doing so joins the company of such literary dazzlers as George Saunders and Margaret Atwood.
One of the most exciting debut novels I've ever read. It beautifully illustrates the fragility of parenthood, womanhood, and our very humanity. Surreal and precise, sharp and moving, this novel joins the ranks of other genius post-apocalyptic works likeOryx and CrakeandStation Eleven. Read it and marvel.
A rich and passionate novel of page-turning intensity, an unflinching gaze into our deepest flaws, offering a way forward in the simplest of terms: love, community, humility and trust.
A necessary and luminous story about coming to terms with a ruined world. An unforgettable novel, dazzling despite its darkness. Schwehn is a brave and brilliant writer.
Schwehn'sTailings, is, like all of my favorite contemporary nonfiction, uncategorizable--part memoir, part spiritual reflection, part reportage. Brilliant in all of its guises,Tailingsonly makes me want to read more by Kaethe Schwehn. She writes with fierce intelligence and luminous clarity on all of her subjects: loss, grace, this very particular village, and the hard work of renewal.Tailingsis a beautiful and original book by a remarkable writer.