Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai
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Ohromní optimisti

V roce 1985 se Yaleu Tishmanovi, který se stará o galerijní akvizice, podaří husarský kousek – přiveze do Chicaga mimořádnou sbírku obrazů. Zatímco jeho kariéra utěšeně vzkvétá, kolem něj se šíří epidemie AIDS. Přátelé umírají jeden po druhém a po pohřbu přítele Nica tato hrozba sáhne až k Yaleovi. Brzy mu zbyde jen Fiona, Nicova mladší sestra. O třicet let později Fiona v Paříži pátrá po své dceři, která zmizela v sektě. Při pobytu u starého přítele, slavného fotografa, který dokumentoval epidemii v Chicagu, se konečně vyrovnává s tím, jak krize AIDS ovlivnila její život i vztah s dcerou. Prolínající se příběhy Yalea a Fiony nás provedou tragédií 80. let i chaosem současného světa, kdy se oba hrdinové oceňovaného románu snaží najít dobro a odpuštění uprostřed katastrofy.


Veľkí optimisti

Omamný príbeh o priateľstve a zmierení navzdory tragickým stratám, odohrávajúci sa v Chicagu 80. rokov a v súčasnom Paríži. Je rok 1985 a Yale Tishman, riaditeľ rozvoja umeleckej galérie v Chicagu, sa práve chystá urobiť úžasný skok v svojej kariére – priniesť galérii ako dar výnimočnú zbierku malieb z dvadsiatych rokov 20. storočia. No hoci jeho kariéra rozvitá, v spoločnosti vládne atmosféra úzkosti a strachu zo šíriacej sa epidémie aidsu. Jeho priatelia umierajú jeden po druhom a po pohrebe Yaleovho kamaráta Nica sa vírus dokonca dostane i do jeho bezprostrednej blízkosti. Čoskoro jedinou spriaznenou dušou, ktorá mu ostane, je Fiona, Nicova malá sestra. O tridsať rokov neskôr sa Fiona snaží nájsť v Paríži svoju dcéru, ktorá prepadla náboženskému kultu, preťala s rodičmi všetky kontakty a zmizla bez stopy. Fiona býva u svojho starého priateľa, fotografa, ktorý zdokumentoval chicagsku krízu, a konečne si uvedomí, aký devastačný vplyv mala epidémia aidsu na jej život a na vzťah s jej dcérou. Dva prelínajúce sa príbehy nás prevedú cez ťaživé osemdesiate roky až do chaosu súčasného sveta, keď sledujeme, ako sa obaja protagonisti Yale i Fiona usilujú nájsť dobro uprostred katastrofy.


I Have Some Questions For You

'Whip-smart and uncompromising' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'Quietly riveting' IRISH TIMES'It's the perfect crime' NEW YORKER'Impressive and complex' GUARDIAN'Addictive' OPRAH DAILYThe riveting new novel from the author of The Great Believers, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past: the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the 1995 murder of a classmate, Thalia Keith. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's death and the conviction of the school's athletics coach, Omar Evans, are the subject of intense fascination online, Bodie prefers-needs-to let sleeping dogs lie. But when The Granby School invites her back to teach a two-week course, Bodie finds herself inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn't as much of an outsider at Granby as she'd thought-if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case. One of the most acclaimed contemporary American writers, Rebecca Makkai reinvents herself with each of her brilliant novels. Both a transfixing mystery and a deeply felt examination of one woman's reckoning with her past, I Have Some Questions for You is her finest achievement yet.


The Great Believers

1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDs epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected, and that he might even have the virus himself.The only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago epidemic, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways the AIDS crisis affected her life and her relationship with her daughter.Yale and Fiona's stories unfold in incredibly moving and sometimes surprising ways, as both struggle to find goodness in the face of disaster.

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