Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of over fifty books, including fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award-winning television series, her works include Cat’s Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; The Heart Goes Last; Hag-Seed; The Testaments, which won the Booker Prize and was long-listed for the Giller Prize; and the poetry collection Dearly. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in Great Britain for her services to literature. She lives in Toronto.
Pat Cummings was born in Chicago but grew up traveling with her military family all over the world. She has been writing and illustrating children's books since she graduated from Pratt Institute and is the author and/or illustrator of more than forty books. In addition to her art for the Coretta Scott King Award winner My Mama Needs Me by Mildred Pitts Walter, Pat's luminous work includes Angel Baby; Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon!; and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Talking With Artists. She teaches children’s book illustration and writing at Parsons School of Design, the New School, and Pratt Institute. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can visit her online at www.patcummings.com.
Since The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has published a number one bestseller every year. His books have been translated into 45 languages and have sold over 350 million copies worldwide. Nine have been adapted to film, including The Firm, The Pelican Brief and A Time To Kill.
His first work of non-fiction, The Innocent Man, was adapted into a six-part Netflix docuseries; his second, Framed, highlights work with organisations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted.
He is the two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was distinguished with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.
Erica Jong is an award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist best known for her eight bestselling novels, including the international bestseller Fear of Flying. She is also the author of seven award-winning collections of poetry.
Douglas Preston has published 39 books of fiction and nonfiction, of which 32 have been New York Times bestsellers, some reaching the #1 position. Two of his novels, co-written with Lincoln Child, were chosen in a National Public Radio poll of readers as being among the 100 greatest thrillers ever written. His recent nonfiction book, The Lost City of the Monkey God, was named a notable book of the year by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and National Geographic magazine. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker Magazine. He worked as an editor for the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. He is the recipient of numerous writing awards in the U.S. and Europe, and he served as president of the Authors Guild from 2019 to 2023.
James Shapiro, aprofessor at Columbia University in New York, is the author of Rival Playwrights, Shakespeare and the Jews, and Oberammergau.
Monique Truong nació en Saigón en 1968 y se mudó a Estados Unidos cuando tenía seis años. Estudió en la Universidad de Yale y se especializó en Propiedad Intelectual en la Universidad de Columbia. Fue coeditora de la antología Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. Su primera novela, El libro de la sal, se convirtió rápidamente en un bestseller en Estados Unidos, y recibió numerosos premios, entre ellos el Young Lions Fiction Award de la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York, el Bard Fiction Award y el Stonewall Book Award. En 2010 se publicó su segunda novela, Bitter in the Mouth. Monique Truong vive en Brooklyn, Nueva York.
Rachel Vail is the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed novels If We Kiss and Lucky, Gorgeous, and Brilliant (the Avery sisters trilogy) and more than a dozen other novels for young teens, including the Friendship Ring series. She has also written many beloved picture books, including Piggy Bunny and Sometimes I'm Bombaloo, and two hit novels for elementary school kids, Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters and Justin Case: Shells, Smells, and the Horrible Flip-Flops of Doom. The author lives in New York City with her husband and their two sons.
Após a primeira semana de isolamento durante a pandemia de covid-19, os moradores de um prédio em Nova York começam a se reunir no terraço, ao ar livre e mantendo o distanciamento social, para contar histórias. A cada noite, mais vizinhos se juntam à fogueira metafórica, cada qual trazendo suas banquetas, poltronas e cadeiras. Aos poucos, eles — alguns até então completos estranhos — descobrem mais uns sobre os outros e sobre si mesmos, e principalmente sobre a natureza da vida e da morte. Neste romance inspirado pelo clássico Decamerão, os organizadores Margaret Atwood e Douglas Preston se unem a uma lista estrelada de colaboradores para criar uma belíssima ode às pessoas que não puderam escapar para lugares melhores durante a pandemia. Em uma narrativa misteriosa, reconfortante e surpreendente, Catorze dias revela como, mesmo sofrendo tantas perdas, algumas comunidades ainda são capazes de resistir e se fortalecer.
"Uma façanha impressionante." — The Guardian
"Uma cápsula do tempo retratando a necessidade humana por conexão durante a pandemia." — NPR
Um prédio em Manhattan, um elenco heterogêneo de personagens, uma pandemia: este é o cenário de Catorze dias, um romance diferente de tudo que você já leu.
Nos primeiros dias de isolamento social devido à pandemia de covid-19, uma nova zeladora é contratada para trabalhar em um prédio caindo aos pedaços no Lower East Side, em Nova York. Em busca de um respiro, ela passa a utilizar o espaço aberto do terraço e, com o tempo, os outros moradores fazem o mesmo. Assim começa uma surpreendente tapeçaria de histórias, em que cada nova voz que se une ao trágico coro dos isolados é completamente diferente da anterior — afinal, foram escritas pelos mais diversos autores.
Com a colaboração de ilustres nomes da ficção, de todos os gêneros e tradições, como John Grisham, Emma Donoghue, Tommy Orange, Diana Gabaldon e R. L. Stine em projeto da Authors Guild of America, Catorze dias é uma experiência literária única, uma jornada pela arte ancestral de contar histórias e uma homenagem ao poder da união, mesmo — e em especial — nas mais trágicas circunstâncias.
Título : Catorze dias
EAN : 9786555953220
Editorial : Rocco Digital
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