Новинки Сары Нович

Ученики школы для глухих Ривер-Вэлли хотят жить обычной жизнью подростков, дружить, влюбляться, учиться и сдавать экзамены, а еще они хотят, чтобы политики, врачи, родители перестали объяснять, что им делать со своими телами. Среди героев книги девочка Чарли, которая никогда прежде не общалась с другими глухими людьми, мальчик Остин, выросший в семье, где глухота передается из поколения в поколение, и директор школы Фебруари, дочь глухих родителей, которая делает все возможное, чтобы Ривер-Вэлли не закрыли. Но и в стране, и в жизни каждого героя происходят драматические события, и нужно либо смириться с переменами, либо отстаивать право…

True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they’ll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school’s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress, a CODA (child of deaf adult(s)) who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another—and changed forever.

This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.

Part war saga, part coming of age tale, part story of love and friendship, Girl at War is a powerful debut novel by a young writer who will appeal to readers of Anthony Marra, Téa Obreht, and Anthony Doerr.

Zagreb, summer of 1991. Ten-year-old Ana Jurić is a carefree tomboy who runs the streets of Croatia's capital with her best friend, Luka, takes care of her baby sister, Rahela, and idolizes her father. But as civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, soccer games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid drills. When tragedy suddenly strikes, Ana is lost to a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers; a daring escape plan to America becomes her only chance for survival.

Ten years later Ana is a college student in New York. She's been hiding her past from her boyfriend, her friends, and most especially herself. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, she returns alone to Croatia, where she must rediscover the place that was once her home and search for the ghosts of those she's lost. With generosity, intelligence, and sheer storytelling talent, Sara Nović's first novel confronts the enduring impact of war, and the enduring bonds of country and friendship.