Colum McCann Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Exploring themes of rupture and repair in the digital age, this novel takes readers on a journey into a concealed underwater world. The narrative promises a gripping experience, showcasing the author's signature storytelling style, renowned from previous bestselling works. Through rich character development and intricate plotlines, the story invites reflection on modern connections and the depths of human experience.

'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden KeefeA 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMESThe English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped in northern Syria, and nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS in a public beheading that would ricochet in video around the world. A whole decade. Time rushes past. And yet, for Diane, that moment is unending. In American Mother, legendary author Colum McCann tells Diane's story as she recalls the months of his captivity, the efforts made to bring him home and the days following his death, in which Diane came face to face with one of the men responsible for her son's kidnapping and torture. A testament to the power of radical empathy and moral courage, American Mother takes us inside one woman's extraordinary journey to find connection in a world torn asunder, and to fight for others as a way to keep her son's memory alive.

À l’heure où Donald Trump quitte la Maison Blanche et que les États-Unis entrent dans une nouvelle ère, America tire sa révérence avec un dernier numéro agrémenté pour l’occasion d’un poster inédit et d’une vingtaine de pages supplémentaires. Dans ce 16ème opus, retrouvez d’abord un grand entretien avec l’écrivain irlando-américain Colum McCann qui nous avait fait l’honneur de participer au premier numéro. Persuadé du rôle déterminant de la littérature, l’auteur livre ses inquiétudes nouvelles mais aussi ses espoirs face à l’inconnue de ces années post-Trump. Alors que Joe Biden vient d’être élu 46ème président, America s’interroge sur l’avenir de l’Amérique à travers des portraits de figures démocrates, un reportage sur le devenir du trumpisme ou encore un essai sur les GAFA, les autres maitres du pays. Autre temps forts de ce numéro, un conte fantastique inédit de la star de la BD Emil Ferris inspiré de la trouble période du confinement, une nouvelle de l’immense écrivain Ernest Hemingway, encore jamais publiée en France, ainsi que le parti pris de l’auteure Rachel Kushner qui imagine la conclusion minable de la relation entre le fils de Donald Trump et sa petite amie, métaphore du désamour du pays pour la défaite en hommage au film « Shame ».

Reportagen schickt die besten Autorinnen und Autoren rund um den Globus. Für Geschichten, die bleiben.In dieser Ausgabe:- Miss Marple aus Zürich. Sie beschattet Erbschleicher, Fremdgänger, Blaumacher. Unterwegs mit einerPrivatdetektivin im mondänen Seefeld. Von Juliane Schiemenz.- Albtraum auf 80m2. Feindliche Übernahme: Die Untermieterin Katherine Gladstone macht sich in einem New Yorker Apartment breit. Von Bridget Read- Der Ehefrau ausgeliefert. Ein Schlaganfall lässt Andrzej Grzela verstummen. Nur seine Augen können noch sprechen. Von Malgorzata Smolak.- Ein Haus in Palästina. Zwischen brennenden Autoreifen, Wasserwerfern und Checkpoints: Dar Jacir, eine Oase der Kunst. Von Colum McCann- Hier schweigt Ihr Kapitän. Nicht einmal das Swissair-Grounding veränderte das Leben von Langstreckenpilot Alex Borer so stark wie Corona. Von Christoph Keller- Die historische Reportage: Mütter Courage, 1995. Von Sonia Seymour Mikich.

In coma a Pechino, Dai Wei riflette sulla sua vita nella Cina comunista. Come attivista controvoglia, viene colpito e finisce in un profondo coma. Anche se per il mondo esterno sembra ridotto a un vegetale, tutto arriva a lui: la cura incondizionata di sua madre e l'ipocrisia di alcuni amici. Con grande attenzione ai dettagli, l'autore crea un mondo che offre al lettore un'immagine onesta e talvolta sgradevole della Cina. Coma a Pechino è un epico racconto sulla Cina, ma ancora di più sul popolo cinese. Wei è qualcuno che desidera semplicemente vivere la propria vita e diventa così il simbolo della lotta per la libertà.

From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer—and so much more than that. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy and wonder in the stories we craft and hear. A paean to the power of language, both by argument and by example, Letters to a Young Writer is fierce and honest in its testament to the bruises delivered by writing as both a profession and a calling. It charges aspiring writers to learn the rules and even break them. These fifty-two essays are ultimately a profound challenge to a new generation to bring truth and light to a dark world through their art.

S’khol – so nennt man im Hebräischen Eltern, die ihr Kind verloren haben. Im Deutschen gibt es dafür kein Wort. Rebecca ist Übersetzerin aus dem Hebräischen. Ihr Mann hat sie verlassen, und sie lebt mit dem gemeinsam adoptierten Sohn Tomas im irischen Galway an der Atlantikküste. Der dreizehnjährige Tomas schwimmt für sein Leben gern im offenen Meer. Rebecca erfüllt seinen großen Traum und schenkt ihm einen Neoprenanzug – am nächsten Morgen, als sie aufwacht, sind er und der Anzug verschwunden. Es beginnen Tage des Suchens, des Wartens, des Hoffens, der Schuldgefühle, der Verzweiflung ...

Colum McCann's most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon--named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides--is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging. Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend, to the checkpoints both physical and emotional that they must negotiate. Their worlds shift irreparably after ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet and thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. When Bassam and Rami learn of one another's stories, they recognize the loss that connects them and they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace. McCann crafts Apeirogon out of a universe of fictional and non-fictional material. He crosses centuries and continents, stitching time, art, history, nature, and politics together in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. Musical, cinematic, muscular, delicate, and soaring, Apeirogon is a novel for our times.

In 1845 vindt een zwarte Amerikaanse slaaf in Ierland een willig oor bij voorvechters van de afschaffing van de slavernij. In 1919 proberen twee dappere jonge piloten het bloedbad van de Eerste Wereldoorlog te vergeten en maken met hun omgebouwde bommenwerper de eerste trans-Atlantische vlucht van Newfoundland naar het westen van Ierland. En in 1998 steekt een Amerikaanse senator de oceaan over om te bemiddelen in het Noord-Ierse conflict. In Trans-Atlantisch, de nieuwe roman van Colum McCann, worden de drie verhalen van deze mannen op ingenieuze wijze met elkaar vervlochten door vrouwen die de oversteek naar Amerika en terug naar Ierland hebben gemaakt. McCann kan als geen ander 150 jaar geschiedenis op een meesterlijke manier in één verhaal vatten en creëert met Trans-Atlantisch opnieuw een uitzonderlijke roman.

It's August of 1974, a summer "hot and serious and full of death and betrayal," with Watergate and the Vietnam War making the world feel precarious. A stunned hush pauses the cacophonous universe of New York City as a man on a cable walks (repeatedly) between World Trade Center towers. This extraordinary, real-life feat by French funambulist Philippe Petit becomes the touchstone for stories that briefly submerge you in ten varied and intense lives--a street priest, heroin-addicted hookers, mothers mourning sons lost in war, young artists, a Park Avenue judge. All their lives are ordinary and unforgettable, overlapping at the edges, occasionally converging. And when they coalesce in the final pages, the moment hums with such grace that its memory might tighten your throat weeks later

The novel begins in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s when Zoli, a young Roma girl, is six years old. The fascist Hlinka guards had driven most of her people out onto the frozen lake and forced them to stay there until the spring, when the ice cracked and everyone drowned - Zoli's parents, brothers and sisters. Now she and her grandfather head off in search of a 'company'. Zoli teaches herself to read and write and becomes a singer, a privileged position in a gypsy company as they are viewed as the guardians of gypsy tradition. But Zoli is different because she secretly writes down some of her songs. With the rise of the Nazis, the suppression of the gypsies intensifies. The war ends when Zoli is 16 and with the spread of socialism, the Roma are suddenly regarded as 'comrades' again. Zoli meets Stephen Swann, a man she will have a passionate affair with, but who will also betray her. He persuades Zoli to publish some of her work. But when the government try to use Zoli to help them in their plan to 'settle' gypsies, her community turns against her. They condemn her to 'Pollution for Life', which means she is exiled forever. She begins a journey that will eventually lead her to Italy and a new life. Zoli is based very loosely on the true story of the Gypsy poet, Papsuza, who was sentenced to a Life of Pollution by her fellow Roma when a Polish intellectual published her poems.

Colum McCann wollte seine Geschichte mit dem Meer schreiben, doch jedes Mal, wenn er sich daran machte, blieb das Blatt vor ihm weiß. Er war sich stets sicher, dass es sie gab, diese seine Geschichte mit dem Meer, doch immer wieder entglitt sie ihm. Bis er eines Tages begriff, dass er sie bereits geschrieben hatte: „Jedes Mal, wenn ich an diese Geschichte dachte, kehrte ich in Gedanken zu der kleinen Stadt in Galway zurück, die ich vor vielen Jahren für meine Erzählung Hungerstreik erfunden habe.“ Der Schlüssel zu der Geschichte, die Colum McCann nie aufschreiben konnte, liegt in einer anderen Geschichte verborgen. Dieses Buch erzählt sie beide.

In a daring tour de force, Colum McCann takes on the most intractable of conflicts: The Troubles in Northern Ireland In this, his fourth book, McCann, a writer of fierce originality and haunting lyricism, turns to the Troubles and reveals, as only fiction writers can, the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents and children. In the title story, a teenage girl must choose between allegiance to her Catholic father and gratitude to the British soldiers who have saved the family's horse. The young hero of "Hunger Strike," a novella, tries to replicate the experience of his uncle, an IRA prisoner on hunger strike. And in "Wood," a small boy does his part for the Protestant marches, concealing his involvement from his blind father. Writing in a new form, but with the skill and force and sparkling poetry that have brought him international acclaim, Colum McCann has delivered masterful, memorable short fiction. ©2008 Colum McCann (P)2010 Audible, Inc.

"A Russian peasant who became an international legend, a Cold War exile who inspired the adoration of millions, an artist whose name was a byword for genius, sex, and excess. The magnificence of Rudolf Nureyev's life and work is known, but now Colum McCann reinvents this figure through the light he shed on the lives of those who knew him." Boldly embellishing the biographical facts, McCann tells the story through a chorus of voices. There is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's first ballet teacher, who, banished from St. Petersburg, rescues her preternaturally talented protege from the stunted life of his town; Yulia, whose sexual and artistic ambitions are thwarted by her Soviet-sanctioned marriage; Victor, a decadent Venezuelan, who revels in the hedonism of the gay celebrity set; Odile, the legendary cook, who finds love at middle age while feeding the great and their hangers-on. Spanning four decades and many worlds, from the killing fields of World War II to the wild abandon of New York's gaudy eighties, Dancer is peopled by a large cast of characters, obscure and famous, real and imagined.

Familiekroniek van een gemengd huwelijk aan het begin van de 20e eeuw in New York tot de scheiding van de kleinzoon en diens vlucht in een subcultuur.

Set in Ireland and America, the twelve gems in this award-winning volume are tales of exile, loss, love, and displacement. The characters--oddballs and outcasts, misfits and travelers--are all in search of a way back home, or a way to leave it--from the anorexic nun who ends her days in a Long Island convent hospital to the weathered boxing champ fond of stealing clothes from a New Orleans laundromat..

With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland, where the marriage and the story reach their heartrending climax. As the narratives of Conor's quest and his parents' lives twine and untwine, Collum McCann creates a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.