Bøker av Lauren Groff

Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but behind closed doors things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.

A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. A taut and electrifying novel.

**A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR****2018 National Book Awards Finalist**In these vigorous stories, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling to a world in which storms, snakes and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats are of a human, emotional and psychological nature.

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIESIn the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land.

En ung jente på flukt i skogen, forfulgt av jegere, ulver og lunefulle guder. Hun eier ingenting, annet enn sin egen snarrådighet, et par verdiløse gjenstander og fornemmelsen som brenner i henne av at verden er mye, mye større.Jenta løper gjennom et nyfødt Amerika, gjennom nybyggertro, gresk mytologi og mørke eventyr. Og gjennom århundrer med kvinneliv, når forfatteren lar henne tenke at «til og med en god mann er mer dødelig enn den farligste bjørn».Det er en fabulerende og politisk, uhyggelig og oppslukende ferd. Som Guardians begeistrede kritiker skrev, Lauren Groff har ikke gått seg vill i skogen, hun vet nøyaktig hvor hun skal.

"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her"--

A servant girl escapes from a settlement. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and her faith in god. What she finds is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief of everything that her own civilization has taught her, telling the story of America in miniature at a hinge point in history.

The prestigious annual story anthology, now in its third year with a new guest editor format. Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONOne of Barack Obama''s Favorite Books of 2021Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and more!“A relentless exhibition of Groff’s freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell .” – USA Today “An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable.” – O, The Oprah Magazine “Thrilling and heartbreaking.” –Time Magazine “[A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her.” –New York Times One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies.Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie’s vision be bulwark enough? Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff’s new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.

Året er 1158 og 17 år gamle Marie de France blir kastet ut av hoffet til sin slektning, dronning Eleonore av Aquitania, og sendt til England hvor hun skal stues bort som priorinne i et stort kloster herjet av sult og sykdom. Som den siste i en lang rekke krigere og korsfarere, kjennes klosterlivet som å begraves levende for Marie. Men etter hvert vekkes stridslysten i henne, også innenfor de tunge steinveggene, og hun innser at rollen hun er tvunget inn i, kan romme både store kamper og stor makt. Ettersom årene går, blomstrer det isolerte og skakkjørte klostret under Maries styre. Og i et kvinnesamfunn preget av hardt kroppsarbeid og religiøs overgivelse, vokser det fram både sterke viljer, vilt begjær og høyst verdslig ekstase. Inspirert av to virkelige kvinner, begge så godt som oversett av historikerne, har Groff skrevet en av årets mest kritikerroste, sanselige og originale romaner.

From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel Fates and Furies, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in years. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman.

Covers nine stories of vastly different styles and structures, including "L De Bard and Aliette" that recreates the tale of Abelard and Heloise in New York during the 1918 flu epidemic; "Lucky Chow Fun"; and, the title story of "Delicate Edible Birds".

Willie Cooper arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York in the wake of a disastrous affair with her much older, married archaeology professor. That same day, the discovery of a prehistoric monster in the lake brings a media frenzy to the quiet, picture-perfect town her ancestors founded.