Вручение 3 марта 2022 г.
Страна: Великобритания
Место проведения: город Лондон
Дата проведения: 3 марта 2022 г.
Стэнфордская книга года о путешествиях
Лауреат
Колин Таброн
0.0
'Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the world to life' Michael Palin
*As serialised on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*
**A FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR**
**ONE OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 'S BEST 75 BOOKS OF 2021**
A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer.
The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific to form the tense, highly fortified border between Russia and China.
In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic 3,000-mile long journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth. Harassed by injury and by arrest from the local police, he makes his way along both the Russian and Chinese shores on horseback, on foot, by boat and via the Trans-Siberian Railway, talking to everyone he meets. By the time he reaches the river's desolate end, where Russia's nineteenth-century imperial dream petered out, a whole, pivotal world has come alive.
The Amur River is a shining masterpiece by the acknowledged laureate of travel writing, an urgent lesson in history and the culmination of an astonishing career.
'Magnificent... Colin Thubron's observations on the relationship between Russia and China are full of insight, from which the world can benefit as it faces the challenges of the twenty-first century' Jung Chang
Полли Бартон
5.0
In this dazzling debut, Polly Barton reflects on her experience of moving to the Japanese island of Sado at the age of twenty-one and on her journey to becoming a literary translator. Written in fifty semi-discrete entries, Fifty Sounds is a personal dictionary of the Japanese language that draws together a variety of cultural reflections – from conformity and being an outsider, to the gendering of Japanese society, and attitudes towards food and the cult of ‘deliciousness’ – alongside probing insights into the transformative powers of language-learning. Candid, humane, witty and wise, Fifty Sounds is remarkable work that takes a transparent look at language itself, lifting the lid on the quietly revolutionary act of learning, speaking, and living in another language.
Нина Мингья Паулз
0.0
Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans.
Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo – where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there have been others that have meant different things, but have still been, in their own way, home: from the wild coastline of New Zealand to a pond in northwest London.
This lyrical collection of interconnected essays explores the bodies of water that separate and connect us, as well as everything from migration, food, family, earthquakes and the ancient lunisolar calendar to butterflies. In powerful prose, Small Bodies of Water weaves together personal memories, dreams and nature writing. It reflects on a girlhood spent growing up between two cultures, and explores what it means to belong.
Джозеф Сарате
0.0
There is a war raging in the heartlands of Peru, waged on the land by the global industries plundering the Amazon and the Andes. In Saweto, charismatic activist Edwin Chota returns to his ashaninka roots, only to find that his people can't hunt for food because the animals have fled the rainforest to escape the chainsaw cacophony of illegal logging. Farmer Maxima Acuña is trying to grow potatoes and catch fish on the land she bought from her uncle - but she's sitting on top of a gold mine, and the miners will do anything to prove she's occupying her home illegally. The awajun community of the northern Amazon drink water contaminated with oil; child labourer Osman Cuñachí's becomes internationally famous when a photo of him drenched in petrol as part of the clean-up efforts makes it way around the world.
Joseph Zárate's stunning work of documentary takes three of Peru's most precious resources - gold, wood and oil - and exposes the tragedy, violence and corruption tangled up in their extraction. But he also draws us in to the rich, surprising world of Peru's indigenous communities, of local heroes and singular activists, of ancient customs and passionate young environmentalists. Wars of the Interior is a deep insight into the cultures alive in the vanishing Amazon, and a forceful, shocking exposé of the industries destroying this land.
Художественная литература с чувством места
Лауреат
Leïla Slimani
3.6
The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny--a passionate interracial love story between a Moroccan soldier who fought for France in World War II and a French woman whose fierce desire for autonomy parallels colonial Morocco's fight for independence
Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war, the couple settles in Morocco to start a farm. While Amine tries to cultivate the rocky and unforgiving terrain, Mathilde feels suffocated by the harsh climate. Alone and isolated with her two children, she struggles with assimilation and classism. The ten years of the novel are also those of a rise in tensions and violence that will lead in 1956 to Morocco's independence. All the characters in this novel live "in the country of others": settlers vs. natives, soldiers vs. peasants, and exiles. Women, especially, live in the country of men, and must constantly fight for their emancipation.
Элиф Шафак
4.2
Кипр. 1974 год. Пара юных влюбленных, грек Костас и турчанка Дефне, тайно встречаются в романтической таверне под сенью старого фигового дерева, растущего прямо в зале. Дерево это становится свидетелем трагических событий, расколовших пополам некогда мирный прекрасный остров, исковеркавших судьбы его обитателей и, казалось, навсегда разлучивших Костаса и Дефне…
Лондон. Конец 2010-х годов. В саду дома, где с Костасом живет его шестнадцатилетняя дочь Ада, растет молодое фиговое дерево. Для Ады это единственное связующее звено с островом, где она никогда не была, и с драматической историей ее семьи, которая, подобно дереву, уходит корнями в далекое прошлое…
«Остров пропавших деревьев» – трогательная, романтическая история любви на фоне междоусобиц и ужасов гражданской войны.
Миранда Коули Хеллер
4.1
Семейная трагедия, история несбывшейся любви и исповедь об утраченной юности и надеждах.
Словно потерянный рай, Бумажный дворец пленит, не оставляя в покое. Бумажный дворец — место, которое помнит все ее секреты. Здесь она когда-то познала счастье. И здесь, она утратила его навсегда.
Элла возвращается туда снова и снова, ведь близ этих прудов и тенистых троп она потеряла то, что, казалось, уже не вернуть.
Но один день изменит все. Привычная жизнь рухнет, а на смену ей придет неизвестность — пугающая и манящая, обещающая жизнь, которую она так долго не решалась прожить… Осталось сделать только один шаг навстречу.
Руперт Томсон
0.0
Set in Barcelona in the years leading up to the financial crash of 2008, these poignant interlinked stories follow ordinary people whose lives will be changed forever.
Like Robert Altman's film Short Cuts, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three interconnected stories that are bound by time and place, and by the way characters weave in and out of them. A crime that remains unreported in one story has light shed on it in another.
Exploring addiction, celebrity, racism, immigration, pornography, and self-delusion, Barcelona Dreaming has the feeling of a modern fable, underpinned by a longing for the inaccessible and a nostalgia for what is about to be lost.
Клаудиа Пиньейро
4.3
Дочь Элены находят повешенной на церковной колокольне. Полиция уверена: это самоубийство, но Элена не верит, что её Рита могла пойти на такой отчаянный шаг. Она хочет провести собственное расследование и отправиться через весь город к человеку, способному всё прояснить. Но сделать это не так уж и просто — всему виной тяжкая, сковывающая тисками болезнь Паркинсона, с которой Элена вынуждена бороться день изо дня.
Джесси Гринграсс
4.0
In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make a home in the midst of environmental disaster.
Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies. Caro, Pauly, Sally, and Grandy are safe, so far, from the rising water that threatens to destroy the town and that has, perhaps, already destroyed everything else. But for how long?
Caro and her younger half-brother, Pauly, arrive at the High House after her father and stepmother fall victim to a faraway climate disaster—but not before they call and urge Caro to leave London. In their new home, a converted summer house cared for by Grandy and his granddaughter, Sally, the two pairs learn to live together. Yet there are limits to their safety, limits to the supplies, limits to what Grandy—the former village caretaker, a man who knows how to do everything—can teach them as his health fails.
A searing novel that takes on parenthood, sacrifice, love, and survival under the threat of extinction, The High House is a stunning, emotionally precise novel about what can be salvaged at the end of the world.
