Bücher von Sara Novic

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War“For those who loved the Oscar-winning film CODA, a boarding school for deaf students is the setting for a kaleidoscope of experiences.”—The Washington PostONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, BooklistTrue biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talkTrue biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they’ll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school’s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress, a CODA (child of deaf adult(s)) who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another—and changed forever.This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.

"Ana, hör mir zu. Wir werden ein Spiel spielen, Okay? Alles, was du tun musst, ist, ganz nah bei mir zu bleiben, sehr nah. Wenn ich dann in die Grube falle, lässt du dich auch fallen. Mach einfach die Augen zu und halte deinen Körper ganz gerade. Aber es funktioniert nur, wenn wir beide genau im selben Moment fallen. Hast du verstanden?" Dies sind die letzten Worte, an die sich die 10-jährige Ana erinnert, als sie vom Waldboden aufsteht. Sie hat durch einen Trick überlebt, doch ihr Vater und ihre Mutter sind tot. Es ist 1991, in der Nähe von Zagreb, in einem Land, in dem Nachbarn zu Feinden geworden sind. Ana gelingt die Flucht nach Amerika, zusammen mit ihrer kleinen Schwester Rahela, die noch ein Baby ist. Rahela wächst sorglos heran, doch Ana kann nicht vergessen. Bis sie eines Tages beschließt, zurückzukehren in das heutige Kroatien, an den Ort, der für sie noch immer voller Wunder ist und der einmal ihre Heimat war ...

For readers ofThe Tiger's WifeandAll the Light We Cannot Seecomes a powerful debut novel about a girl's coming of ageand how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYBOOKPAGE,BOOKLIST,AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE *; ALEX AWARD WINNER *; LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST *;LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Zagreb, 1991. Ana Juri is a carefree ten-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatia's capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana's idyllic childhood. Daily life is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer matches are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one another, and Ana's sense of safety starts to fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world. New York, 2001. Ana is now a college student in Manhattan. Though she's tried to move on from her past, she can't escape her memories of warsecrets she keeps even from those closest to her. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, Ana returns to Croatia after a decade away, hoping to make peace with the place she once called home. As she faces her ghosts, she must come to terms with her country's difficult history and the events that interrupted her childhood years before. Moving back and forth through time, Girl at War is an honest, generous, brilliantly written novel that illuminates how history shapes the individual. Sara Novi fearlessly shows the impact of war on one young girland its legacy on all of us. It's a debut by a writer who has stared into recent history to find a story that continues to resonate today. Praise for Girl at War';Outstanding . . . Girl at War performs the miracle of making the stories of broken lives in a distant country feel as large and universal as myth.'The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)';[An] old-fashioned page-turner that will demand all of the reader's attention, happily given. A debut novel that astonishes.'Vanity Fair ';Shattering . . . The book begins with what deserves to become one of contemporary literature's more memorable opening lines. The sentences that follow are equally as lyrical as a folk lament and as taut as metal wire wrapped through an electrified fence.'USA Today