Her er boka som tar tiden på pulsen, har tatt amerikanske kritikere og lesere med storm og høstet et skred av litterære priser. Romanen rommer en vev av fortellinger med røtter i punkrockens California og tråder inn i framtidens USA. Sentralt står livene til BennieSalazar, punkrocker og senere[...]

Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate d[...]

New Yorker Danny is running from something. A loner who cannot bear to be apart from his Wi-Fi connection, he is in need of refuge. His cousin Howie is an enigmatic and successful former drug addict who just happens to own a castle. As they turn the castle from crumbling ruin to luxury hotel, Howie [...]

"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." -- "Shelf Awareness for Readers""The Best American Short Stories 2014" will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book[...]

"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." -- "Shelf Awareness for Readers""The Best American Short Stories 2014" will be selected by national best-selling author Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book[...]

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
A "New York Times Book Review "Best Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: "Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point,[...]

Reconstructive facial surgery after a car crash so alters Manhattan model Charlotte that, within the fashion world, where one's look is oneself, she is unrecognizable. Seeking a new image, Charlotte engages in an Internet experiment that may both save and damn her. As her story eerily converges with[...]

In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O'Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 19[...]

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
A "New York Times Book Review "Best Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: "Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point,[...]

En charmerende, fræk og dybt alvorlig bog om at være ung og blive ældre, uden nødvendigvis at blive klogere.

Den kleptomane Sasha arbejder hos stjerneproduceren Bennie Salazar, som efterhånden er grå i toppen og tyr til guldflager i kaffen for at holde potensen oppe. I s[...]

Bennie Salazar, en åldrande före detta punkare som nu blivit skivbolagsmogul, anställer den rastlösa Sasha. Genom olika nedslag i deras liv skildras hur tid och musik formar oss människor.

Vi får möta Bennie när han försöker upprätta en relation med sin nioårige son, men ocks�[...]