Лучшие книги Конни Палмен

Конни Палмен (р. 1955) - известная нидерландская писательница, лауреат премии "Лучший европейский роман". Она принадлежит к поколению молодых авторов, дебют которых принес им литературную известность в последние годы. В центре ее повести "Наследие" (1999)- сложные взаимоотношения смертельно больной писательницы и молодого человека, ее секретаря и духовного наследника, которому предстоит написать задуманную ею при жизни книгу. На русском языке издается впервые.

A debut novel which won the European Novel of the Year Award about unconventional love spanning seven years. A young philosophy student Marie Deniet encounters several men: an astrologer, an epileptic, a philosopher, a priest, a physicist, an artist and a psychiatrist, and attempts to comprehend the laws these loves live by.

Connie Palmen, geboren 1955, lebt in Amsterdam. Ihr erster Roman 'Die Gesetze', "ein erfrischendes Debüt" (The Independent, London), eine Sammlung unkonventioneller Liebesgeschichten, ein moderner Bildungsroman, eine brillant erzählte Geschichte von der Suche nach Glück und Selbstfindung, wurde zum internationalen Bestseller und Kultbuch der neunziger Jahre.

In 1963 Sylvia Plath took her own life in her London flat. Her death was the culmination of a brief, brilliant life lived in the shadow of clinical depression—a condition exacerbated by her tempestuous relationship with mercurial poet Ted Hughes. The ensuing years saw Plath rise to martyr status while Hughes was cast as the cause of her suicide, his infidelity at the heart of her demise.

For decades, Hughes never bore witness to the truth of their marriage—one buried beneath a mudslide of apocryphal stories, gossip, sensationalism, and myth. Until now.

In this mesmerizing fictional work, Connie Palmen tells his side of the story, previously untold, delivered in Ted Hughes’s own uncompromising voice. A brutal and lyrical confessional, Your Story, My Story paints an indelible picture of their seven-year relationship—the soaring highs and profound lows of star-crossed soul mates bedeviled by their personal demons. It will forever change the way we think about these two literary icons.