Eine junge Frau in einer von Trinkern bevölkerten Kleinstadt an einer Felsküste hoch im Norden der USA: Sie wohnt in einem alten Seemannsheim mit sechzehn Zimmern, von denen die meisten leer stehen, weil niemals Gäste kommen. Sie ist unglücklich verliebt in den Fischer Jude, der im Irak im Krieg war und seitdem nur wenig spricht. Sie hat das trostlose Leben an Land satt. Sie sagt: 'Okay. Scheiß aufs Festland. Ich bin eine Nixe.' In der bedrückenden Dunkelheit eines geist- und lebensfeindlichen Ortes knipst eine junge Frau das Licht an, indem sie sich neu erfindet – mit ungebremster Phantasie und einer gehörigen Wut im Bauch. Nixenkuss ist ein spektakulärer Roman, der an Pfiff, Raffinesse und Erfindungsgabe seinesgleichen sucht. Samantha Hunt ist ein Phänomen. Denn es ist ihr gelungen, eine Wundergeschichte so frisch, modern und aufrecht zu erzählen, dass kein Zweifel bleibt: Einer Welt voll Tristesse und Traurigkeit begegnet man am besten, indem man ihr als Nixe gegenübertritt.
Samantha Hunt Bücher
Samantha Hunt erschafft Erzählungen, die sich in die Grenzbereiche zwischen Realität und Fantasie wagen, oft vor Kulissen, die selbst von Geschichten durchdrungen sind. Ihr Schreiben zeichnet sich durch scharfe Introspektion und eine einzigartige Perspektive auf menschliche Emotionen und Verbindungen aus. Hunt experimentiert furchtlos mit Form und Sprache, was zu Werken führt, die sowohl zum Nachdenken anregen als auch absolut fesselnd sind. Ihre Romane spiegeln ein tiefes Verständnis für die Komplexität des Lebens und die beständige Suche nach Sinn wider.






"What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? The Unwritten Book gathers subjects that haunt: the dead, the forest, the towering library of all those books we'll never have time to read or write. Samantha Hunt, like a mad crossword puzzler, looks for patterns and clues. She explores motherhood, hoarding, addiction, grief, how we insulate ourselves from the past, how we misinterpret the world. Nestled within her inquiry is a very special ghost book, an incomplete manuscript about people who can fly without wings, written by her father and found in his desk just days after he died. What secrets might his work reveal? The Unwritten Book conveys a vivid, grateful life that sheds fear for wonder and revels in randomness, connectivity, the magic of everyday existence, and the immense weight of love"--Back cover
Invention of Everything Else
- 273 Seiten
- 10 Lesestunden
Nikola Tesla spends the last days of his extraordinary life at the Hotel New Yorker “in this surreal historical novel [that] dazzles in the details” (The New Yorker). It is 1943, and legendary inventor Nikola Tesla occupies a forbidden room on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker, stealing electricity. Broke, forgotten, and suffering from a weak heart, his only consolations are his memories and his daily walks to Bryant Park. Louisa, a young hotel chambermaid, is determined to befriend him. And as she helps him on his daily walks, she wins his affection through a shared love of pigeons. Little by little, he confides in her the tragic and tremendous story of his life. Meanwhile, Louisa’s father is embarking on an unlikely mission to travel back in time to find his beloved late wife. A “sophisticated pastiche of science fiction, fantasy, melodrama, and historical anecdote,” The Invention of Everything Else is both a heartfelt story of love and death and an homage to one of history's most visionary scientists (Elle).
A contemporary gothic from an author in the company of Kelly Link and Aimee Bender, Mr. Splitfoot tracks two women in two times as they march toward a mysterious reckoning. číst celé
Samantha Hunt's first collection of stories, The Dark Dark, blends the literary and the fantastic and brings us characters on the verge - girls turning into women, women turning into deer, people doubling or becoming ghosts, and more.
The Invention of Everything Else
- 368 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific laboratory. Brought together by a shared interest in the pigeons that nest in the hotel, Louisa discovers that the mysterious guest is Nikola Tesla, one of the most brilliant - and most neglected - inventors of the twentieth century.The Invention of Everything Else charts the relationship of the girl and the genius during the last week of Tesla's life, when sinister forces are closing in on him. However, as well as being an engaging literary mystery, this exceptional novel movingly tells the life story of this extraordinary man and also recounts the heartbreak and redemption of one ordinary family..