Jim Shepard Bücher

Aron, ein kleiner polnisch-jüdischer Junge, ist in seiner nicht gerade kleinen, armen Familie so etwas wie eine Katastrophe auf zwei Beinen. Nichts will ihm so recht glücken und alles macht er kaputt. Doch halb Tom Sawyer, halb Simplicius – er ist ein guter Kerl. Aron hat leider keine Zeit, ein vernünftiger Erwachsener zu werden. Denn seine Familie zieht nach Warschau, die Deutschen überfallen Polen und die Juden werden ins Ghetto gepfercht. Er freundet sich mit einer Gruppe Jugendlicher an, die für sich und ihre Familien ums Überleben kämpfen, arbeiten, schmuggeln und stehlen und sich immer fragen müssen, wieviel Freundschaft und Liebe sie sich noch leisten können. Verrat und Tod lauern jederzeit. Als der König der Kinder, der berühmte Arzt und Pädagoge Janusz Korczak, Aron in sein Waisenhaus aufnimmt, beginnt eine ungewöhnliche Freundschaft, die den Jungen verändert und beide über sich hinauswachsen lässt. Der preisgekrönte amerikanische Autor Jim Shepard erzählt in diesem spannenden und lakonisch-anrührenden Roman aus dem Warschauer Ghetto eine Geschichte von Menschwerdung und Überleben in einer inhumanen Welt und berichtet von einer Dimension des Menschlichen, die noch das Finsterste überstrahlt.

Featuring contributions from twenty-six contemporary fiction writers and poets, this anthology presents short essays reflecting on the profound impact of a single movie on each author. The essays explore a range of emotions—whether inspiration, seduction, horror, or fascination—providing readers with unique insights into the writers' perspectives on film and its influence on their creative processes.

The collection features a diverse array of characters, including brilliant scientists, reluctant soldiers, and female explorers, showcasing the vast spectrum of human experience. Jim Shepard's stories delve into the bizarre, breathtaking, and mundane aspects of life, presenting each character with depth and authenticity. This work captures the complexity of existence, from the extraordinary to the deeply flawed, creating a compelling tapestry of narratives that explore the intricacies of human nature.

The narrator reflects on a life filled with failures in various roles—son, brother, neighbor, student, employee, lover, and husband. Their self-deprecating humor highlights a series of shortcomings while revealing a sense of resignation. Amidst these struggles, they find solace in mundane skills like playing darts and managing simple tasks. This candid exploration of personal inadequacies offers a unique perspective on identity and relationships, blending humor with vulnerability.

A fantastic writer - compassionate, funny and fearless . . . inspires us to look more closely at life, and be more caring George Saunders

A spare and gripping novel about a disastrous pandemic-completed by the award- winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged-that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis.

Bursting with wicked humor and driven by an incomparable understanding of what it means to be human, The World to Come is the inimitable work of “the most ambitious story writer in America” (The Daily Beast). Now a major motion picture Shepard traverses both borders and centuries, seamlessly inhabiting a multitude of disparate men and women, and giving voice to visionaries, pioneers, and secret misfits—from nineteenth-century explorers departing on one of the Arctic’s most nightmarish expeditions to twentieth-century American military wives maintaining hope at home. Shepard’s characters confront everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to colossal catastrophes, battling natural forces, the hazards of new technology, and their own implacable shortcomings. "[Shepard] has a knack for compressing a novel’s worth of life into 30 or 40 pages.” —The Boston Globe

Shepard is an excellent mimic, skillfully providing each of his narrators with a distinct voice.

A fictionalized biography of F.W. Murnau, a pioneering German filmmaker who was among the first to use a moving camera in order to obtain different angles. The novel covers his adventures in World War I as a fighter pilot, his homosexuality and the making of his famous vampire film, Nosferatu