Atticus Lish ist ein amerikanischer Romanautor, dessen Debütwerk unerwarteten Erfolg erzielte und mehrere Auszeichnungen erhielt. Seine Prosa taucht oft in die Tiefen der menschlichen Erfahrung ein und erforscht Themen wie Überleben und Identität. Lishs unverwechselbarer Stil zeichnet sich durch seine rohe Ehrlichkeit und seinen durchdringenden Einblick in die Welt um uns herum aus. Seine Schriften bieten den Lesern ein intensives und unvergessliches Erlebnis.
Die uigurische Kriegswaise Zou Lei hat den langen Weg in die USA geschafft. Mittellos und allein trifft sie in New York den traumatisierten Irakkriegsveteranen Brad Skinner, und die beiden verlieben sich ineinander. Verzweifelt und dennoch voller Hoffnung auf ein neues Leben treiben sie durch die Stadt und suchen nach Halt. Doch inmitten der vielen Kulturen, der Verrohung und Versöhnung braut sich ein Unheil zusammen, das sie für immer aus einanderzureißen droht.
'BLISTERING' THE TIMES * 'EXTRAORDINARY' FINANCIAL TIMES *Winner of the New York City Book Award for Fiction* *Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Fiction* New York Times Best of 2014 Wall Street Journal's Best of 2014 Vanity Fair's Best of 2014 Publishers Weekly's Best of 2014 BuzzFeed's Best of 2014 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2015 Set in the underbelly of New York, Preparation for the Next Life exposes an America as seen from the fringes of society and, in devastating detail, destroys the myth of the American Dream through two of the most remarkable characters in contemporary fiction. Powerful, realistic and raw, this is one of the most ambitious - and necessary - novels of our time.
From the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life--a searing, tender, haunting story about fathers and sons, sons and mothers, and a young boy's struggle to become a man. Corey Goltz is fifteen years old when his mother, Gloria, is diagnosed with ALS. Estranged from his father, and increasingly responsible for meeting both his mother's needs and his own, Corey is determined to be the hero Gloria needs --at any cost. But when his father Leonard re-enters the picture, Corey's beliefs--about honor and love, duty and devotion, and the uses and misuses of power--are sorely tested. Charismatic and cruel, Leonard is a man of outsize influence and dubious moral character, a man whose neglect of his wife and son amounts to a kind of barbarism. The closer Corey gets to understanding his father's role in their family, the closer he comes to unmasking a violence that is beyond even his worst imaginings. Set against the backdrop of a small town in Massachusetts in the early 2000s, where the working class world collides with the professional and academic worlds of nearby Boston and Cambridge, The War For Gloria tells the story of a young man straddling childhood and adulthood, whose yearning to protect his mother requires him to dismantle the myth of--and possibly destroy--his father. A gripping, indelible work from a fearless new voice in American fiction.
An indelible work from a strikingly original voice in American fiction.