Siri Hustvedt Boeken

Bill en Leo zijn hartsvrienden. Ze delen hun passie voor kunst en literatuur, wonen in hetzelfde flatgebouw in New York, zijn gek op elkaars vrouwen en krijgen ongeveer tegelijkertijd een zoon. Door een tragisch ongeval sterft plotseling, op elfjarige leeftijd, de zoon van Leo. De twee gezinnen proberen de klap te boven te komen, maar niets is meer zoals het was. Het noodlot slaat opnieuw toe wanneer Bill overlijdt en zijn zoon betrokken raakt bij een duistere moord. Leo voelt zich verantwoordelijk voor de jongen en in een wanhopige poging om hem te redden zet hij een wilde achtervolging in. Met grote mensenkennis en intensiteit zet Siri Hustvedt levensechte en onweerstaanbare personages neer, die bij hun pogingen om de mysteries van het leven te doorgronden elkaar dicht naderen. Wat me lief was gaat over liefde en vriendschap, identiteit en verlies, dood en rouw, kunst en geweld. Het is een spannende en intelligente roman die existentiële levenskwesties aansnijdt en zowel ontroert als tot denken aanzet.

In het leven van een Amerikaanse studente, die haar eigen identiteit aan het zoeken is, spelen in verschillende perioden vier mensen een grote rol.

From the author of "The Enchantment of Lily Dahl" comes a powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages.

In this illuminating and absorbing collection of essays, Siri Hustvedt explores many of the themes that preoccupy her novels: identity and memory, sexuality and mortality, psychology, love and the power of imagination. But here she offers her personal experience - as daughter, sister, mother and wife, student, reader and writer - to illustrate fundamental aspects of our lives as individuals and social beings in the modern world. She draws, too, on the work of Henry James, F Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Dickens, probing their insights into human nature. Wise, honest and luminously intelligent, this is a book that invites us to look afresh at ourselves and the universe we inhabit.

Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, Siri Hustvedt is also highly regarded as a writer of non-fiction whose insights are drawn from her broad knowledge in the arts, humanities and sciences. In this trilogy of works collected in a single volume, Hustvedt brings a feminist, interdisciplinary perspective to a range of subjects. Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Susan Sontag and Knut Ove Knausgaard are among those who come under her scrutiny. In the book's central essay, she explores the intractable mind-body problem and in the third section, reflects on the mysteries of hysteria, synesthesia, memory, perception and the philosophy of Kierkegaard. With clarity, wit, and passion, she exposes gender bias, upends received ideas and challenges her reader to think again.

From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men, a dazzling collection of essays written with Siri Hustvedt's customary intelligence, wit and ability to convey complex ideas in a clear and lively way. Divided into three sections - Living, which draws on Siri's own life; Thinking, on memory, emotion and the imagination; and Looking, on art and artists - the essays range across the humanities and science as Siri explores how we see, remember, feel and interact with others, what it means to sleep, dream and speak, and what we mean by 'self'. The combination offers a profound and fascinating insight into ourselves as thinking, feeling beings.

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.

"While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion - or something else entirely?"--Back cover

Iris Vegan, a graduate student living alone and impoverished in New York, encounters four strong characters who fascinate and in different ways subordinate her: an inscrutable urban recluse who employs her to record the possessions of a murdered woman; a photographer whose eerie portrait of Iris takes on a life of its own; an old woman in hospital who tries to claim a remnant of the ailing Iris; and a professor she has an affair with. An exploration of female identity in an age when the old definitions - as some man's daughter/wife/mother - no longer apply, fuelled with eroticism and a sense of menace.

Includes study guide and interview with the author.