Barbara Kingsolver

Ambientada en las montañas del sur de los Apalaches, Demon Copperhead es la historia de un muchacho nacido de una madre soltera adolescente en una caravana, sin más patrimonio que el buen aspecto y el pelo cobrizo de su difunto padre, un ingenio caustico y un feroz talento para la supervivencia. Relatado con su propia voz, Demon se enfrenta a los peligros modernos de los hogares de acogida, el trabajo infantil, las escuelas en ruinas, el exito deportivo, la adiccion, los amores desastrosos y las perdidas aplastantes. A traves de todo ello, se enfrenta a su propia invisibilidad en una cultura popular en la que incluso los superheroes han abandonado a los pueblos rurales en favor de las ciudades.Hace muchas generaciones, Charles Dickens escribio David Copperfield a partir de su experiencia como superviviente de la pobreza institucional y sus daños en los niños de su sociedad. Esos problemas aun no se han resuelto en la nuestra. Dickens no es un requisito indispensable para los lectores de esta novela, pero le sirvio de inspiracion. Al trasladar una novela epica victoriana al Sur de Estados Unidos contemporaneo, Barbara Kingsolver recurre a la ira y la compasion de Dickens y, sobre todo, a su fe en el poder transformador de una buena historia.

Ambientada en las montañas del sur de los Apalaches, Demon Copperhead es la historia de un muchacho nacido de una madre soltera adolescente en una caravana, sin más patrimonio que el buen aspecto y el pelo cobrizo de su difunto padre, un ingenio caustico y un feroz talento para la supervivencia. Relatado con su propia voz, Demon se enfrenta a los peligros modernos de los hogares de acogida, el trabajo infantil, las escuelas en ruinas, el exito deportivo, la adiccion, los amores desastrosos y las perdidas aplastantes. A traves de todo ello, se enfrenta a su propia invisibilidad en una cultura popular en la que incluso los superheroes han abandonado a los pueblos rurales en favor de las ciudades. Hace muchas generaciones, Charles Dickens escribio David Copperfield a partir de su experiencia como superviviente de la pobreza institucional y sus daños en los niños de su sociedad. Esos problemas aun no se han resuelto en la nuestra. Dickens no es un requisito indispensable para los lectores de esta novela, pero le sirvio de inspiracion. Al trasladar una novela epica victoriana al Sur de Estados Unidos contemporaneo, Barbara Kingsolver recurre a la ira y la compasion de Dickens y, sobre todo, a su fe en el poder transformador de una buena historia.

A masterpiece in storytelling from the global bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behaviour. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHOR BOOK AT BEDTIME ON BBC RADIO 4 AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK WITH OVER 22,000 5* REVIEWS 'Extraordinary.' OPRAH 'She means to save us by telling us stories. . . She comes closer than anyone else I know.' ANN PATCHETT 'Electrifying. . . Every sentence here sizzles.' Daily Mail 'It's EPIC. Righteously angry, DEEPLY moving and exquisitely written.' MARIAN KEYES 'A powerful tale.' Good Housekeeping 'A fantastic read.' EMILY MAITLIS 'A masterclass.' RICHARD POWERS ____________ Demon Copperhead is a once-in-a-generation novel that breaks and mends your heart in the way only the best fiction can. Demon's story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking 'like a little blue prizefighter.' For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise. In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty isn't an idea, it's as natural as the grass grows. For a generation growing up in this world, at the heart of the modern opioid crisis, addiction isn't an abstraction, it's neighbours, parents, and friends. 'Family' could mean love, or reluctant foster care. For Demon, born on the wrong side of luck, the affection and safety he craves is as remote as the ocean he dreams of seeing one day. The wonder is in how far he's willing to travel to try and get there. Suffused with truth, anger and compassion, Demon Copperhead is an epic tale of love, loss and everything in between.

Orleanna Price no es consciente de lo que les espera a ella y a sus cuatro hijas en la misión del Congo Belga a la que las arrastra su marido, un pastor baptista, en 1959. La joven Rachel, las gemelas adolescentes Leah y Adah, y la pequeña Ruth May describen y construyen su vida en Africa mientras se sobreponen a las sorpresas que les depara este continente y la obsesiva mision evangelizadora de su padre. A partir de las voces de cada una de las cinco mujeres de la familia, Kingsolver muestra la lucha de estas mujeres por sobrevivir a la dura vida que les ha impuesto el padre de la familia y por encontrar un camino que les conduzca a su propia salvacion.

Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family - or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them. Willa's two grown-up children, a new-born grandchild, and her ailing father-in-law have all moved in at a time when life seems at its most precarious. But when Willa discovers that a pioneering female scientist lived on the same street in the 1800s, could this historical connection be enough to save their home from ruin? And can Willa, despite the odds, keep her family together?

AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER NOW From the multi million copy bestselling author Demon Copperhead a true story of female led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 now available for the first time in the UK Kingsolver means to save us by telling us stories She comes closer than anyone else I know ANNE PATCHETT Clear and emotional This is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal JOHN SAYLES It was the summer of 1983 Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spends her weekends cutting her teeth as a freelance journalist when she landed an assignment Her mission was to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike Over the year that followed Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families increasingly engaged and heartbroken She recorded stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives sisters and daughters She saw rights she d taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about as they cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what was happening to them or didn t care or simply could not know This book is the true story of the families who held the line and of Kingsolver s commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered the

AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER NOWFrom the multi million copy bestselling author Demon Copperhead a true story of female led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 now available for the first time in the UK Kingsolver means to save us by telling us stories

Opens the author s home to us as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food much of it from their own garden This title shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda It is full of original recipes that celebrate healthy eating sustainability and the pleasures of good food

"The flames now appeared to lift from individual treetops in showers of orange sparks, exploding the way a pine log does in a campfire when it is poked. The sparks spiralled upward in swirls like funnel clouds. Twisters of brightness against grey sky." On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature: the monarch butterflies have not migrated south for the winter this year. Is this a miraculous message from God, or a spectacular sign of climate change. Entomology expert, Ovid Byron, certainly believes it is the latter. He ropes in Dellarobia to help him decode the mystery of the monarch butterflies. Flight Behaviour has featured on the NY Times bestseller list and is Barbara Kingsolvers most accessible novel yet

Barbara Kingsolver's acclaimed international bestseller tells the story of an American missionary family in the Congo during a poignant chapter in African history. It spins the tale of the fierce evangelical Baptist, Nathan Price, who takes his wife and four daughters on a missionary journey into the heart of darkness of the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them to Africa all they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to the King James Bible - is calamitously transformed on African soil. Told from the perspective of the five women, this is a compelling exploration of African history, religion, family, and the many paths to redemption. The Poisonwood Bible was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 and was chosen as the best reading group novel ever at the Penguin/Orange Awards. It continues to be read and adored by millions worldwide

The flames now appeared to lift from individual treetops in showers of orange sparks, exploding the way a pine log does in a campfire when it is poked. The sparks spiralled upward in swirls like funnel clouds. Twisters of brightness against grey sky."On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature: the monarch butterflies have not migrated south for the winter this year. Is this a miraculous message from God, or a spectacular sign of climate change. Entomology expert, Ovid Byron, certainly believes it is the latter. He ropes in Dellarobia to help him decode the mystery of the monarch butterflies.Flight Behaviour has featured on the NY Times bestseller list and is Barbara Kingsolver''s most accessible novel yet.

"Libro de poeta en soledad, de andaluz jondo, perdido por muelles y avenidas de rascacielos." RAFAEL ALBERTI LA AURORA La aurora de Nueva York tiene cuatro columnas de cieno y un huracán de negras palomas que chapotean las aguas podridas. La aurora de Nueva York gime por las inmensas escaleras buscando entre las aristas nardos de angustia dibujada. La aurora llega y nadie la recibe en su boca porque alli no hay mañana ni esperanza posible: a veces las monedas en enjambres furiosos taladran y devoran abandonados niños. Los primeros que salen comprenden con sus huesos que no habra paraiso ni amores deshojados; saben que van al cieno de numeros y leyes, a los juegos sin arte, a sudores sin fruto. La luz es sepultada por cadenas y ruidos en impudico reto de ciencia sin raices. Por los barrios hay gentes que vacilan insomnes como recien salidas de un naufragio de sangre. Federico Garcia Lorca

"El poderoso libro de Barbara Kingsolver es realmente una novela decimonónica, una historia de redención y pecado." The New York Times Orleanna Price no es consciente de lo que les espera a ella y a sus cuatro hijas en la misión del Congo Belga a la que les arrastra su marido, un pastor baptista, en 1959. La joven Rachel, las gemelas adolescentes Leah y Adah, y la pequeña Ruth May describen y construyen su vida en África mientras se sobreponen a las sorpresas que les depara este continente y la obsesiva misión evangelizadora de su padre. A partir de las voces de cada una de las cinco mujeres de la familia, Kingsolver muestra la lucha de estas mujeres por sobrevivir a la dura vida que les ha impuesto el padre de la familia y por encontrar un camino que les conduzca a su propia salvación. Pero La Biblia envenenada también es un recorrido por la compleja historia de la independencia del Congo, y por la fascinación ante una cultura desconocida y una naturaleza desbordante.

Este libro maravilloso nos propone un viaje hacia una nueva cultura de la alimentación más sana para las personas y más sabrosa en la mesa, una reivindicación sin dogmatismos de la comida natural, que resulta ser mejor para la economia, para el medio ambiente y para el alma. - La deliciosa aventura de una familia de urbanitas que se van a vivir a una granja en plena naturaleza. -Un libro divertido y muy util que es una maravillosa mezcla de memoria familiar y relato periodistico sobre la aventura de cultivar tu propia comida y las ventajas de comer alimentos naturales. -Barbara Kingsolver es una admirada novelista ya traducida con gran exito en España. -El libro incluye breves comentarios sobre temas ecologicos de su marido y recetas de su hija, que complementan y amenizan la narracion. -El tema de la comida natural y local esta cada vez mas presente en los medios de comunicacion. -Abundante informacion util y practica sobre la comida natural, por que es mas sana, sostenible y sabrosa.

The Lacuna is the store of a mans search for safety in the grinding jaws of two nations, at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost. This is a gripping story of identity, connection with our past, and the power of words to create or devastate. Like no other novel yet written, it illuminates an era when bold internationalism gave way to a post-war landscape of narrowly defined Americanism.

The bestselling debut novel by Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and twice winner of the Women s Prize for Fiction Plucky Taylor Greer grows up poor in rural Kentucky with two goals to avoid pregnancy and to get away. She succeeds on both counts when she buys an old car and heads west. But midway across the country, motherhood catches up with her when she becomes guardian of an abandoned baby girl she calls Turtle. In Tucson they encounter an extraordinary array of people, and with their help Taylor builds herself an her sweet, stunned child a life. Compelling and very funny Daily Telegraph Remarkable New York Times An astonishing literary debut Cosmopolitan The work of a visionary... It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling Los Angeles Times

La Taylor, la jove protagonista, viu al Kentucky rural, amb una única cabòria: no quedar-se embarassada. Un dia decideix fugir per trobar-se a si mateixa. Però quan arriba a Arizona, troba una cosa b