Roxane Gay: An Untamed State, Kartoniert / Broschiert
An Untamed State
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- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group, 07/2015
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781472119827
- Item number:
- 6909022
- Volume:
- 384 Pages
- Weight:
- 289 g
- Format:
- 198 x 123 mm
- Thickness:
- 27 mm
- Release date:
- 2.7.2015
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti's richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day when Mireille is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father's Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom. As it becomes clear her father intends to resist the kidnappers, Mireille must endure the torments of a man who resents everything she represents.
An Untamed State is a novel of privilege in the face of crushing poverty, and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce. It is the story of a wilful woman attempting to find her way back to the person she once was, and of how redemption is found in the most unexpected of places. An Untamed State establishes Roxane Gay as a writer of prodigious, arresting talent.
Biography
Roxane Gay, geboren 1974, ist Autorin, Professorin für Literatur und eine der wichtigsten gesellschaftspolitischen und literarischen Stimmen ihrer Zeit. Sie schreibt u.a. für die New York Times und den Guardian, sie ist Mitautorin des Marvel-Comics »World of Wakanda«, Vorlage für den hochgelobten Actionfilm »Black Panther« (2018), dem dritterfolgreichsten Film aller Zeiten in den USA. Roxane Gay ist Gewinnerin des PEN Center USA Freedom to Write Award. Sie lebt in Indiana und Los Angeles.
