Sue Monk Kidd

Lilys Mutter ist vor zehn Jahren umgekommen. Ihr Vater herrscht wie ein grausamer Rachegott uber die inzwischen 14-jahrige. Eines Tages flieht Lily aus der bedruckenden Atmosphare ihres Elternhauses, wandert uber die staubigen Straen der Sudstaaten, um ein neues Zuhause zu finden. Sie begegnet wunderbaren Menschen, rettet mit Mut und Klugheit ein Leben und findet bei drei Frauen Unterschlupf, die, wie im Marchen, in groer Eintracht zusammenwohnen. Die drei Schwestern geben dem Madchen alles, was es braucht: Liebe, Halt, und Geborgenheit. Sie nehmen Lily in ihre Familie auf und weihen sie in die Geheimnisse weiblichen Wissens ein. Lily lernt alles uber die Bienenzucht. Sie erfahrt, wer ihre Mutter, die sie so schmerzlich vermisst, wirklich war, und sie verliebt sich. Doch eines Tages steht ihr Vater am Gartentor

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women.Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.Hetty Handful Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimkes daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller.THE INVENTION OF WINGS by Sue Monk Kidd was selected as an Oprah Book Club 2.0 pick on December 10, 2013.From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, Hetty 'Handful' Grimke is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender ribbons, and presented to Sarah as a gift. Sarah knows what she does next will unleash a world of trouble. She also knows that she cannot accept. And so, indeed, the trouble begins ...A powerful, sweeping novel, inspired by real events, and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century, THE INVENTION OF WINGS evokes a world of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of righteous people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognise; and celebrates the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds.

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller.THE INVENTION OF WINGS by Sue Monk Kidd was selected as an Oprah Book Club 2.0 pick on December 10, 2013.From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarahs eleventh birthday, Hetty Handful Grimke is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender ribbons, and presented to Sarah as a gift. Sarah knows what she does next will unleash a world of trouble. She also knows that she cannot accept. And so, indeed, the trouble begins ...A powerful, sweeping novel, inspired by real events, and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century, THE INVENTION OF WINGS evokes a world of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of righteous people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognise; and celebrates the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds.

Eine Frau zwischen Vernunft und Leidenschaft Eine Insel vor South Carolina: Jessie Sullivan kehrt hierher zurück, weil ihre Mutter Hilfe braucht. Sie hat sich, vermutlich in religiösem Wahn, selbst Leid zugefügt und leidet offensichtlich unter der Last eines schrecklichen Geheimnisses. Jessie, die seit Jahren nicht mehr auf der Insel war, pflegt ihre Mutter, versucht dem Geheimnis auf die Spur zu kommen und unternimmt lange einsame Wanderungen. Sie lässt sich einfangen von der Magie der Insel mit dem alten Kloster und der rauen Landschaft. Sie beginnt wieder zu malen und fügt sich ein in die Gemeinschaft der Inselfrauen. Da begegnet sie einem Mann, der ihr Leben von einer Minute auf die andere auf den Kopf stellen wird: dem Mönch Pater Thomas, der kurz davor steht, sein ewiges Gelübde abzulegen. Die beiden stürzen sich in eine leidenschaftliche Liebesbeziehung. Jessie will ihre langjährige Ehe nicht gefährden, und fragt sich immer wieder, ob sie das Recht hat, Pater Thomas von sei15nem vorgezeichneten Weg abzubringen. Doch die Sehnsucht nach einem Seelenverwandten, nach Sinnlichkeit und Spiritualität droht über die Vernunft zu siegen. Irgendwann braucht ihre Mutter sie nicht mehr, das Geheimnis ist gelöst. Jessie muss jetzt eine folgenschwere Entscheidung treffen ...12Es ist hart, dieses Buch aus der Hand legen zu müssen für so profane Dinge wie Essen und Schlafen. Elle01Sue Monk Kidd hat sich in den USA bereits mit dem Schreiben von Biografien einen Namen gemacht ('Die Bienenhüterin' war in England für den renommierten Orange Prize nominiert), zwei ihrer Erzählungen wurden in die "Best American Short Stories" aufgenommen. Die Autorin lebt mit ihrer Familie in South Carolina.

Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for. When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. Fugitives from justice and from Lily's harsh and unyielding father, they follow a trail left by the woman who died ten years before. Finding sanctuary in the home of three beekeeping sisters, Lily starts a journey as much about her understanding of the world, as about the mystery surrounding her mother.

Kidd's stunning debut, "The Secret Life of Bees," spent 77 weeks on "The New York Times" bestseller list. Now, in her much-anticipated new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans and cement her reputation as one of the most remarkable writers at work today. Sue Monk Kiddas stunning debut, "The Secret Life of Bees," has transformed her into a genuine literary star. Now, in her much-anticipated new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans and cement her reputation as one of the most remarkable writers at work today. Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivanas conventional life has been amolded to the smallest space possible.a So when she is called home to cope with her motheras startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Islanda amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeksashe becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her motheras tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right. What inspires the yearning for a soul mate? Few writers have explored, as Kidd does, the lush, unknown region of the feminine soul where the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic exists. "The Mermaid Chair" is a vividly imagined novel about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body; one that illuminates a womanas self-awakening with the brilliance and power that only a writer of Kiddas ability could conjure.

Dejando atrás un matrimonio en crisis, Jessie conoce al padre Thomas y juntos se entregan a un peligroso juego amoroso. Un secreto largamente escondido transportará a Jessie hacia un nuevo despertar. La ultima novela de la autora de La vida secreta de las abejas - que ha vendido mas de tres millones de ejemplaers es una brillante y turbadora historia de amor y amistad.

's The Mermaid Chair is the soulful tale of Jessie Sullivan, a middle-aged woman whose stifled dreams and desires take shape during an extended stay on Egret Island, where she is caring for her troubled mother, Nelle. Like Kidd's stunning debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, her highly anticipated follow up evokes the same magical sense of whimsy and poignancy. While Kidd places an obvious importance on the role of mysticism and legend in this tale, including the mysterious mermaid's chair at the center of the island's history, the relationships between characters is what gives this novel its true weight. Once she returns to her childhood home, Jessie is forced to confront not only her relationship with her estranged mother, but her other emotional ties as well. After decades of marriage to Hugh, her practical yet conventional husband, Jessie starts to question whether she is craving an independence she never had the chance to experience. After she meets Brother Thomas, a handsome monk who has yet to take his final vows, Jessie is forced to decide whether passion can coexist with comfort, or if the two are mutually exclusive. As her soul begins to reawaken, Jessie must also confront the circumstances of her father's death, a tragedy that continues to haunt Jessie and Nelle over thirty years later.

Caroline du Sud, été 1964. Lily, quatorze ans, grandit entre un père intransigeant et Rosaleen, sa nourrice noire, qui l’élève depuis la mort de sa mère. Lorsque, au cours d’émeutes raciales, Rosalee

Su primera novela, La vida secreta de las abejas, estuvo más de cien semanas en la lista de bestsellers del New York Times y ha vendido más de cuatro millones de copias. Su segunda obra de ficción, El secreto de la sirena, ha sido número uno en la lista de bestsellers del New York Times. Sue analiza, a través de su propia experiencia, conceptos como la soledad, la trascendencia de lo cotidiano, el valor del silencio o el amor. Tal como ella afirma, toda teología personal, y este libro es la suya, debería comenzar con las palabras «déjame que te cuente una historia...».

En un monasterio se conserva una misteriosa silla con sirenas esculpidas, dedicada a una santa que, según la leyenda, había sido una sirena antes de su conversión. Cuando Jessie acude a la isla, lleva una vida convencional junto a su marido Hugh. Sin embargo, Jessie se enamora del hermano Thomas, un monje que está a punto de hacer los votos definitivos... y se debate entonces entre negar o aceptar ese perverso deseo...

In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic. --Regina Marler

SUE MONK KIDD is the author of two memoirs, "The Dance of the Dissident Daughter" and "When the Heart Waits". She received a Poets and Writers Award for the story that inspired novel "The Secret Life of Bees". Her fiction has appeared in several literary journals and two of her stories-including an excerpt from "The Secret Life of Bees"-were selected as notable stories in "Best American Short Stories". She currently lives in South Carolina.

Una cautivadora novela que trae a la memoria tomates verdes fritos, llevada al cine con un elenco espectacular.Carolina del Sur, 1964, en plena lucha por los derechos civiles. Una adolescente y su amiga negra deciden escapar del duro porvenir que les espera en su ciudad, y a la vez buscar respuestas sobre lo ocurrido a la madre de una de ellas, fallecida en extrañas circunstancias. Por el camino se encontrarán con tres hermanas afroamericanas que se dedican a la apicultura y que las acogerán en su casa... Una novela emocionante y evocadora.

Una novela sobre el poder femenino.Una historia que las mujeres compartirán y pasarán a sus hijas por generaciones.Más de dos años y medio en las listas de libros más vendidos del NewYork Times.Más de 8 millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo.Traducida a mas de 36 idiomas.Carolina del Sur, 1964. Lily Owens es una joven de catorce años cuya vida ha girado alrededor de un padre que no la cuida y que la responsabiliza de la misteriosa muerte de su madre. Cuando su niñera Rosaleen, una mujer negra, orgullosa y sin miedo, es encarcelada por defender su recien adquirido derecho al voto frente a los racistas, Lily decide que ambas deben ser libres. Escapan a Tiburon, Carolina del Sur, un pueblo que guarda el secreto del pasado de su madre, y en el que seran alojadas por un excentrico trio de hermanas apicultoras, que introduciran a Lily en el fascinante mundo de las abejas y la miel.Reseña: El tema central de esta novela es la busqueda de una madre por parte de Lily, que la encuentra donde menos lo hubiera imaginado.The New York Times Book Review

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, Hetty 'Handful' Grimke is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender ribbons, and presented to Sarah as a gift. Sarah knows what she does next will unleash a world of trouble. She also knows that she cannot accept. And so, indeed, the trouble begins ...A powerful, sweeping novel, inspired by real events, and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century, THE INVENTION OF WINGS evokes a world of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of righteous people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognise; and celebrates the power of friendship.