Barbara Kingsolver

Ambientada en las montañas del sur de los Apalaches, Demon Copperhead es la historia de un muchacho nacido de una madre soltera adolescente en una caravana, sin más patrimonio que el buen aspecto y el pelo cobrizo de su difunto padre, un ingenio caustico y un feroz talento para la supervivencia. Relatado con su propia voz, Demon se enfrenta a los peligros modernos de los hogares de acogida, el trabajo infantil, las escuelas en ruinas, el exito deportivo, la adiccion, los amores desastrosos y las perdidas aplastantes. A traves de todo ello, se enfrenta a su propia invisibilidad en una cultura popular en la que incluso los superheroes han abandonado a los pueblos rurales en favor de las ciudades.Hace muchas generaciones, Charles Dickens escribio David Copperfield a partir de su experiencia como superviviente de la pobreza institucional y sus daños en los niños de su sociedad. Esos problemas aun no se han resuelto en la nuestra. Dickens no es un requisito indispensable para los lectores de esta novela, pero le sirvio de inspiracion. Al trasladar una novela epica victoriana al Sur de Estados Unidos contemporaneo, Barbara Kingsolver recurre a la ira y la compasion de Dickens y, sobre todo, a su fe en el poder transformador de una buena historia.

Ambientada en las montañas del sur de los Apalaches, Demon Copperhead es la historia de un muchacho nacido de una madre soltera adolescente en una caravana, sin más patrimonio que el buen aspecto y el pelo cobrizo de su difunto padre, un ingenio caustico y un feroz talento para la supervivencia. Relatado con su propia voz, Demon se enfrenta a los peligros modernos de los hogares de acogida, el trabajo infantil, las escuelas en ruinas, el exito deportivo, la adiccion, los amores desastrosos y las perdidas aplastantes. A traves de todo ello, se enfrenta a su propia invisibilidad en una cultura popular en la que incluso los superheroes han abandonado a los pueblos rurales en favor de las ciudades. Hace muchas generaciones, Charles Dickens escribio David Copperfield a partir de su experiencia como superviviente de la pobreza institucional y sus daños en los niños de su sociedad. Esos problemas aun no se han resuelto en la nuestra. Dickens no es un requisito indispensable para los lectores de esta novela, pero le sirvio de inspiracion. Al trasladar una novela epica victoriana al Sur de Estados Unidos contemporaneo, Barbara Kingsolver recurre a la ira y la compasion de Dickens y, sobre todo, a su fe en el poder transformador de una buena historia.

The flames now appeared to lift from individual treetops in showers of orange sparks, exploding the way a pine log does in a campfire when it is poked. The sparks spiralled upward in swirls like funnel clouds. Twisters of brightness against grey sky."On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature: the monarch butterflies have not migrated south for the winter this year. Is this a miraculous message from God, or a spectacular sign of climate change. Entomology expert, Ovid Byron, certainly believes it is the latter. He ropes in Dellarobia to help him decode the mystery of the monarch butterflies.Flight Behaviour has featured on the NY Times bestseller list and is Barbara Kingsolver''s most accessible novel yet.

The Lacuna is the store of a mans search for safety in the grinding jaws of two nations, at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost. This is a gripping story of identity, connection with our past, and the power of words to create or devastate. Like no other novel yet written, it illuminates an era when bold internationalism gave way to a post-war landscape of narrowly defined Americanism.

Taylor, la joven protagonista, vive en el Kentucky rural, con un único objetivo: no quedarse embarazada. Un dia decide huir para encontrarse a si misma. Pero cuando llega a Arizona se encuentra con algo muy diferente: una niña de trece años abandonada, a la que decide llamar Turtle, y una sociedad donde la violencia es parte de la vida cotidiana.

**DEMON COPPERHEAD - THE NEW BARBARA KINGSOLVER NOVEL - IS AVAILABLE NOW**THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHOR"We wanted to live in a place that could feed us: where rain falls, crops grow, and drinking water bubbles up right out of the ground."Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. Inspired by the flavours and culinary arts of a local food culture, they explore many a farmers market and diversified organic farms at home and across the country. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is part memoir, part journalistic investigation, and is full of original recipes that celebrate healthy eating, sustainability and the pleasures of good food.

**NOW INCLUDING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF DEMON COPPERHEAD**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORMagnificent.The Times,Books of the YearGripping.GraziaPeerless.Daily MailWise.Sunday TimesMeet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family - or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them. Willas two grown-up children, a new-born grandchild, and her ailing father-in-law have all moved in at a time when life seems at its most precarious. But when Willa discovers that a pioneering female scientist lived on the same street in the 1800s, could this historical connection be enough to save their home from ruin? And can Willa, despite the odds, keep her family together?

FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORFrom the international bestselling and prize-winning author of Demon Copperhead, The Lacuna and Poisonwood Bible, the short stories in this collection are spread over landscapes ranging from northern California and the urban Southwest to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St Lucia.In every setting the characters are bound by a strong sense of place and the ties of love and family history: a child accepts the impossible responsibility of remembering her Cherokee great-grandmothers dying culture; a quietly dissolving couple must fight ghosts of past expectations to reach one another; a tough Mexican American woman finds herself in jail because of her commitment to a family legacy of doing the right thing.Homeland and Other Stories follows in the tradition of some of the great short story writers of our time, including Alice Munro, Flannery OConnor and Annie Proulx. With disarming honesty - at times comic but often heartrending - Barbara Kingsolver emerges as a true master of the form.What readers are saying:***** Wonderful short stories, warm and engaging, I couldnt put it down!***** Thoroughly enjoyable. . .Barbara Kingsolver is one of the great storytellers of our time!***** Great stories at times heartbreaking but combined with humour.***** Phenomenal. Im adding this to my list of reasons to love Barbara Kingsolver.

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONOne of the best books about climate change. NAOMI KLEIN Lyrical, socially-engaged and passionate.SUNDAY TIMESImpressive.OBSERVERBeautiful.IRISH TIMESCompelling.DAILY TELEGRAPHA captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change by the award-winning, global bestselling author of Demon Copperhead and The LacunaOn the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged?Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change. It explores the truths we live by, and the complexities that lie behind them.Readers loved Flight Behaviour:Fascinating and unflinchingly raw. Highly recommended. A beautifully crafted tale of creation, destruction and resurrection. So resonant and moving. A great book and in many ways a fable for our times.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORA rich and compulsive readGuardianFrom the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of Demon Copperhead, The Lacuna and The Poisonwood Bible.It is summer in the Appalachian mountains and love, desire and attraction are in the air. Nature, too, it seems, is not immune. From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and interrupts her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmers wife, finds herself marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbours tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected. Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections of love to one another and to the surrounding nature with which they share a place.With its strong balance of narrative and drama, Prodigal Summer is stands alongside Demon Copperhead, The Poisonwood Bible and The Lacuna as one of Barbara Kingsolvers finest works.

**DEMON COPPERHEAD - THE NEW BARBARA KINGSOLVER NOVEL - IS AVAILABLE NOW**THE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORWINNER OF THE WOMENS PRIZEMother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love.Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam during a tour of the Grand Canyon with her guardian, Taylor. Her insistence on what she has seen, and her mothers belief in her, lead to a mans dramatic rescue. The mother and adopted daughter duo soon become nationwide heroes - even landing themselves a guest appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show. But Turtles moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions stemming right back to her Cherokee roots. The crisis quickly envelops not only Turtle and her guardian, but everyone else who touches their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past.Embark on an unforgettable road trip from rural Kentucky and the urban Southwest to Heaven, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation, testing the boundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties that bind.

**NOW INCLUDING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF DEMON COPPERHEAD**FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR The poems of How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living. Barbara Kingsolvers generous collection is divided into thematic sections that loop and interweave to form a carefully patterned whole: a series of How to poems that smartly balance tongue-in-cheek pragmatism with revelatory wisdom, a complicated yet affirmative family pilgrimage to Italy, cherished childhood memories, the perils and pleasures of being a [female] writer, elegies to lost loved ones, and elegies to the planet.Blending resourcefulness and wonder with all the compassionate humanity of her prose, How to Fly will both delight Kingsolvers devoted readership and welcome a host of new readers to her startling verse, while revealing an intimate side to her creative practice as yet unseen.

"The flames now appeared to lift from individual treetops in showers of orange sparks, exploding the way a pine log does in a campfire when it is poked. The sparks spiralled upward in swirls like funnel clouds. Twisters of brightness against grey sky." On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature: the monarch butterflies have not migrated south for the winter this year. Is this a miraculous message from God, or a spectacular sign of climate change. Entomology expert, Ovid Byron, certainly believes it is the latter. He ropes in Dellarobia to help him decode the mystery of the monarch butterflies. Flight Behaviour has featured on the NY Times bestseller list and is Barbara Kingsolvers most accessible novel yet

"Libro de poeta en soledad, de andaluz jondo, perdido por muelles y avenidas de rascacielos." RAFAEL ALBERTI LA AURORA La aurora de Nueva York tiene cuatro columnas de cieno y un huracán de negras palomas que chapotean las aguas podridas. La aurora de Nueva York gime por las inmensas escaleras buscando entre las aristas nardos de angustia dibujada. La aurora llega y nadie la recibe en su boca porque alli no hay mañana ni esperanza posible: a veces las monedas en enjambres furiosos taladran y devoran abandonados niños. Los primeros que salen comprenden con sus huesos que no habra paraiso ni amores deshojados; saben que van al cieno de numeros y leyes, a los juegos sin arte, a sudores sin fruto. La luz es sepultada por cadenas y ruidos en impudico reto de ciencia sin raices. Por los barrios hay gentes que vacilan insomnes como recien salidas de un naufragio de sangre. Federico Garcia Lorca

AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER NOW From the multi million copy bestselling author Demon Copperhead a true story of female led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 now available for the first time in the UK Kingsolver means to save us by telling us stories She comes closer than anyone else I know ANNE PATCHETT Clear and emotional This is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal JOHN SAYLES It was the summer of 1983 Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spends her weekends cutting her teeth as a freelance journalist when she landed an assignment Her mission was to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike Over the year that followed Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families increasingly engaged and heartbroken She recorded stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives sisters and daughters She saw rights she d taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about as they cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what was happening to them or didn t care or simply could not know This book is the true story of the families who held the line and of Kingsolver s commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered the

AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER NOWFrom the multi million copy bestselling author Demon Copperhead a true story of female led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 now available for the first time in the UK Kingsolver means to save us by telling us stories