Bøker av Justin Torres

Winner of the National Book AwardWinner of the California Book AwardWinner of Tournament of BooksOut in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book-Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns-and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text, which, in Juan's tattered volumes, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book, they resist the ravages of memory and time. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures?A book about storytelling-its legacies, dangers, delights, and potential for change-and a bold exploration of form, art, and love, Justin Torres's Blackouts uses fiction to see through the inventions of history and narrative. A marvel of creative imagination, it draws on testimony, photographs, illustrations, and a range of influences as it insists that we look long and steadily at what we have inherited and what we have made-a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth. A reclamation of ransacked history, a celebration of defiance, and a transformative encounter, Blackouts mines the stories that have been kept from us and brings them into the light.

An intimate, emotionally rich novel, in which two men - young and old - reckon with queer histories and their place within them, from the critically acclaimed author of We the Animals.

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories-personal and collective.Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly, but who has haunted the edges of his life. Juan Gay-playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized-has a project to pass along to this new narrator. It is inspired by a true artifact of a book, Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns, which contains stories collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator trade stories-moments of joy and oblivion-and resurrect lost loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures?Inspired by Kiss of the Spider Woman, Pedro Páramo, Voodoo Macbeth, the book at its own center and the woman who created it, oral histories, and many more texts, images, and influences, Justin Torres's Blackouts is a work of fiction that sees through the inventions of history and narrative. An extraordinary work of creative imagination, it insists that we look long and steady at the world we have inherited and the world we have made-a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth.

Tre brødre river seg vei gjennom barndommen - moser hverandre med tomater, lager drager av søppel, gjemmer seg når foreldrene slåss, lister seg rundt i huset mens mor sover nattevakten av seg. Pappa og mamma er fra Brooklyn - han er puertoricaner, hun hvit - de er begge bare så vidt voksne selv, og deres kjærlighet er en alvorlig, farlig sak. Livet i familien er vilt og oppslukende, fullt av kaos og følelser og lykksaligheten av å høre helt og holdent til hverandre. Vi dyra gjenoppdager den gode oppvekstromanen på en overraskende sterk måte: Fra den intense familietilhørigheten barnet opplever, til den dyptpløyende fremmedgjortheten idet han begynner å bane seg sin egen vei i verden.I denne banebrytende debutromanen kaster Justin Torres oss ut i en families kaotiske hjerte, de intense båndene mellom tre brødre, og den mytiske effekten av denne voldsomme kjærligheten på hvem vi må bli som mennesker. "...)gjør boka nærmest et uutslettelig inntrykk på leseren."Frode Hermandrud, Oppland Arbeiderblad (terning 5)"Det er en historie om skrudd oppvekst og kjærlighet på ville veger det handler om. Men det er gjort med en glød og intensitet i framstillingen som vanskelig lar en leser slippe unna, selv når galskapen akselererer Geir Vestad, Hamar Arbeiderblad"Vi dyra er en mørk og gripende roman om oppvekst med uforutsigbarhet,vold og kjærlighet(...)sterk og stilsikker roman, en barndom overbevisende beskrevet fra barnas ståsted."Stine Frimann, Vårt Land Rå, vakker og enestående"Vi dyra er en enestående debut, en vakker page-turner som overbeviser og overrasker."Ida Vågsether, Stavanger Aftenblad Glitrende og brutal oppvekstroman fra forfatter av format, i god norsk oversettelse"Denne debutromanen kan varsle et forfatterskap av format, men står ogsa fjellstøtt pa egne ben (...). Hver tekst er som en knyttneve som apner seg forsiktig. Jeg kan nok trygt si pa vegne av flere: Vi vil ha mer" Susanne Hedemann Hiorth, Dagens Næringsliv "Hjerteskjærende" Sunday Times "Skremmende og gnistrende" Esquire "Et fantastisk hyl av en oppvekstskildring som vil sluke ditt hjerte." Vanity Fair "Uforglemmelig" New York Times"Buldrer med lyrisk dynamitt ... Torres er et voldsomt nytt talent." Esquire"Denne oppvekstromanen svinger mellom vold og hengivenhet, patos og humor, og berikes av en frisk og overdådig språkstil." Observer