Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, over-medication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance." The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, written with the deepest of human feeling. Sherwin Nuland said of the account, "There are no villains in Fadiman's tale, just as there are no heroes. People are presented as she saw them, in their humility and their frailty—and their nobility.
Anne Fadiman Livres
7 août 1953
Anne Fadiman crée des récits captivants qui explorent les liens profonds entre les personnes et la parole écrite. Ses essais se penchent sur la nature de la lecture et les manières complexes dont les livres façonnent notre compréhension du monde et des autres. La voix distinctive de Fadiman apporte un intellect vif et une profonde empathie à ses explorations d'expériences humaines complexes. Son travail célèbre la puissance de la littérature et son impact durable sur nos vies.
"Ex Libris" by Anne Fadiman is a witty collection of essays celebrating her lifelong love for books and language. Blending humor with insight, Fadiman shares anecdotes from her literary family and explores themes like the joy of reading aloud, the art of inscriptions, and the quirks of passionate readers.
The Wine Lover's Daughter
- 272pages
- 10 heures de lecture
A new memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wine
Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. As her family, friends and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, 'The Opposite of Loneliness', went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. She had struck a chord. Even though she was just 22 when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty and possibility of her generation. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assemblage of Marina's essays and stories that articulates the universal struggle we all face as we work out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to make an impact on the world.
In "Ex Libris" teilt Anne Fadiman humorvolle Anekdoten über Schriftsteller*innen und persönliche Erlebnisse ihrer bibliophilen Familie. Sie reflektiert über das Zusammenziehen mit einem Partner, das Vererben von Leseleidenschaft und die Faszination für Antiquariate. Eine unterhaltsame Liebeserklärung an Bücher und das Lesen.
Der Geist packt dich und du stürzt zu Boden
Ein Hmong-Kind, seine westlichen Ärzte und der Zusammenprall zweier Kulturen
- 310pages
- 11 heures de lecture
2000 448 Seiten hardcover Berlin Verlag, Mit Schutzumschlag