James « of Purcyal Everret and ten more books that won » Pulitzer «
| « What distinguishes James from Everret’s previous novels, as much fun and firmly funny as they are, is that here is more-much more. It is the most exciting novel of Everett, but also his most spiritualized, » the New York Times wrote about him. |
On May 16, the novel is to be published in Bulgarian from Kumibri, and is available for pre -orders on the publishing website. « James » rethinks « Huckleberry Finn’s adventures » from Roba Jim. Everywhere followed by Huck, he has secretly learned about reading and writing and describing his story – from escape to a happy meeting with his family and to the rebellion of the slaves he heads.
Soon in Bulgarian is about to come out and Barbara Kingsolver’s « copper -headed demon » (« Everi »), which won Pulitzer in 2023 together with the « wealth » of Hernan Diaz (« Bard »). According to the jury, then Kingsolver’s novel was a masterful processing of David Copperfield, told by a boy from the Appalachi who shows poverty, addiction, failures and moral collapse, as well as his efforts to defeat them.
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The « copper -headed demon » tells of a new generation of lost boys, as well as everyone born in wonderful cursed places that would not leave for nothing in the world. By carrying the epic novel elsewhere and at another time, the writer retains anger, compassion and, above all, belief in the power of a good book to change the world, writes in the annotation of the publication.
| The action in Hernan Diaz’s « Wealth » has developed within a century in former America, and according to its presentation, the novel dissects capitalism, class, greed and meaning of money. It is based on a thorough study and the topics and stories sound completely adequate to the present. |
The writer Colson Whitehead He has won twice the prestigious award in less than five years. In 2017, with Pulitzer for fiction, his novel is an excellent novel « Underground railway » (ed. Leaf). Thus, in the nineteenth century, they called the network of hiding places and helpers, which slaves in America fled to the free states. Between the historical and the fantastic, between the past and the present, the American writer not only tells of the obstacles of a slave, fleeing a southern plantation, but methodically draws a panorama of oppression, fear and cruelty, under the author of America, writes in the book annotation.
« Nickel boys » (« Liszt ») wore the Whitehead the award in 2020, according to the Guardian, the novel raises the lounge of the racist brutality of the South Correctional Schools in the Jim Crow era, and the jury defines his work as an « impressive story of human perseverance, dignity and redemption. » It is based on actual events at the Boys Doser School in Mariana, Florida, closed in 2011.
In « Nickel’s boys » Elud Turner, a diligent black Talahassi student, Florida, is fond of Martin Luther King’s ideas and hopes to go to college, but he sends him to the Nickel Correctional School.
| It turns out to be a « pain factory » where students are subjected to terrifying violence: beatings, humiliation, rape and even killings. |
On the second reading: « Nickel boys »
A year earlier, in 2019, the distinction goes to Richard Powers for the novel « tree history » (« Hummingbird ») in which the writer explores the nature and connections of people with it. The fates of the main characters intertwine around the first and last mystery in the world – the communication between trees. He explores the ecological drama with a reminder that without nature culture cannot exist because « it is the one that protects the souls from destruction. »
Arthur Les’s « wonderful life » by Andrew Sean Greer is the 2018 Pulitzer winner. The novel tells of a failed writer and is described as a satire of the world traveler, as a journey in time and in human hearts, but also as a bitter-sweet romance of lost opportunities. Because despite all these accidents, wrong steps, misunderstandings and failures, « Arthur Les’s wonderful life » is mostly a love story, not. Hummingbirds.
Two years ago, the Circle Publishing House issued the Pulitzer winner for 2016 – Viet Tan Nguyen’s « empathy »which a limited edition HBO series came out last year. The novel follows the tumultuous events along the final withdrawal of Americans from Vietnam in the mid-1970s, but also the life of the first Vietnamese immigrants in the United States, who still live with the illusion of going home and gaining their past.
| Filled with black humor and knowledge of cultural differences, Viet Nguyen’s book translates readers through the maze of human nature and identity at a time that marked world history forever, its annotation is said. |
Viet Tan Nguyen’s « empathy » (excerpt)
« The light we don’t see » by Anthony Doer (« Ciela ») is the 2015 novel from 2015 who tells of a blind girl from Paris and a young German soldier whose paths were intertwined in occupied France during World War II. Marie-Lor and Werner do not know each other, but radio waves have long linked their lives and it is a matter of time to meet. According to Pulitzer Journal, this is a rich imagination and entangled novel, written in short, elegant heads that explore human nature and the controversial power of technology.
Year before the doer the award won Dona Tart’s « Shtiles » (« Unicorn »), and in 2019 a movie was released on the novel starring Nicole Kidman, Ansel Elgort and Jeffrey Wright under John Crowley’s rejection. The « skeleton » is defined as a literary event with its gloomy, dynamic and exciting story worthy of Dickens, as the annotation notes. The book is described by Pulitzer’s jury as « a beautifully written novel for maturation, with extremely well -drawn images. » « A book that excites the mind and touches the heart, » his members added.
| Last year, a new edition of John Kennedy Toul’s « Conspiracy » (« List »), which received the prestigious award posthumously in 1981, since in 1969 the writer put an end to his life. |
« The courage in the expression, the love of language and the stubborn stretching of the shameless stories are at the heart of the game we call literature, and John Kennedy Toul was one of her masters, » Martin Kasabov wrote in Portal Culture. While Ivan Dimitrov in Capital points out that despite the comic characters in the book, it does not mean that it will seem ridiculous to every reader, because it also hides great sadness, « especially great sadness in the parallels that the Bulgarian reader can do with the Bulgarian reality. »
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