author results for Orange, Tommy

There There

Orange, Tommy — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

"Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle's death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American-grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism. Hailed as an instant classic, There There is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable."--Provided by publisher.

There There

Orange, Tommy — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

"Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father ... Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time ... [This] is a multi-generational ... story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people"-- Provided by publisher.

There There

Orange, Tommy — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

There There

Orange, Tommy — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.
A contemporary classic, this “astonishing literary debut” (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale) “places Native American voices front and center” (NPR/Fresh Air).
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism
A book with “so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of American life that it’s a revelation” (The New York Times). It is fierce, funny, suspenseful, and impossible to put down—full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. There There is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary and truly unforgettable.
Don't miss Tommy Orange's new book, Wandering Stars!

Wandering Stars

Orange, Tommy — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

"Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"-- Provided by publisher.

Wandering Stars

Orange, Tommy — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

"Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, [the author] traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family"-- Provided by publisher.

Wandering Stars

Orange, Tommy — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.
"For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you.” —Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.
In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange’s monumental gifts.

Ni aquí ni allí

Orange, Tommy — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Ni aquí ni allí es un relato intergeneracional con un ritmo implacable sobre la violencia y la superación, la memoria y la identidad, la belleza y la desperación incrustadas en la historia de una nación y su pueblo. Cuenta la historia de doce nativos americanos, cada uno con una razón personal para ir al gran powwow de Oakland, la gran celebración de pueblos indígenas. Jacquie Red Feather hace poco que ha dejado el alcohol y está intentando recuperar a la familia a la que, para su vergüenza, abandonó. Dene Oxendene está reconstruyendo su vida después de la muerte de su tío y va trabajar en el powwow para honrar su memoria. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield ha ido a ver bailar a su sobrino Orvil, que ha aprendido danzas tradicionales indias viendo vídeos en YouTube y en esta reunión será la primera vez que baile en público. Allí vivirán una gloriosa comunión y un espectáculo de tradición sagrada y gran boato. Y también vivirán el sacrificio, el heroísimo y una sensación de pérdida inenarrable. Estamos ante una voz que nunca hemos escuchado, llena de poesía y de rabia, que estalla en la página con un apremio y una fuerza asombrosos. Una novela que sorprende por su forma de abordar una Historia compleja y dolorosa, así como la plaga de adicción, maltrato y suicidio entre los nativos americanos.

There There

Orange, Tommy — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Black has come to find his true father. Thomas Frank has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions.

Nigdzie indziej

Orange, Tommy — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Jacquie Czerwone Pióro od niedawna znowu nie pije i usiłuje powrócić na łono rodziny, którą niegdyś porzuciła. Dene Oxendene stara się poskładać swe życie na nowo po śmierci wujka i przybywa na zjazd, aby pracować na rzecz indiańskiej społeczności i w ten sposób uczcić jego pamięć. Opal Viola Wiktoria Niedźwiedzia Tarcza przychodzi na stadion, by obejrzeć występ swego siostrzeńca Orvila, który nauczył się tradycyjnego indiańskiego tańca, oglądając materiały wideo na kanale YouTube, a teraz po raz pierwszy chce go wykonać podczas zjazdu przed publicznością. Ten imponujący spektakl odwołujący się do uświęconej tradycji będzie więc okazją do wzruszających pojednań. Stadion w Oakland stanie się również widownią wydarzeń, w których wyniku naród indiański poniesie wielkie ofiary, znów wykaże się heroizmem i dozna niewypowiedzianej straty.

Teŏ teŏ

Orange, Tommy — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Wandering Stars

Orange, Tommy — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodline. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. From the moment he awakens in his hospital bed, Orvil begins compulsively googling school shootings on YouTube. He also becomes emotionally reliant on the prescription medications meant to ease his physical trauma. His younger brother Lony, suffering from PTSD, is struggling to make sense of the carnage he witnessed at the shooting by secretly cutting himself and enacting blood rituals which he hopes will connect him to his Cheyenne heritage. Opal is equally adrift, experimenting with Ceremony and peyote, searching for a way to heal her wounded family.

There There

Orange, Tommy — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see ourselves as we are, in our regalia, and something in our blood will recoil then boil hot enough to burn through time and place and memory. We'll go back to where we came from, when we were people running from bullets at the end of that old world. The tragedy of it all will be unspeakable, that we've been fighting for decades to be recognized as a present-tense people, modern and relevant, only to die in the grass wearing feathers." Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame in Oakland. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions--intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path. Fierce, angry, funny, groundbreaking--Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. There There is a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. A glorious, unforgettable debut"-- Provided by publisher.

Wandering Stars

Orange, Tommy — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.
"For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you.” —Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.
In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in There There—warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts—asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. Wandering Stars is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange’s monumental gifts.

There There

Orange, Tommy — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Paradise

Morrison, Toni — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem.
“They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage.
“A fascinating story, wonderfully detailed. . . . The town is the stage for a profound and provocative debate.” —Los Angeles Times

Ceremony

Silko, Leslie Marmon — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

"This new edition of the Native American novel about Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, and his struggles when he returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation features a new foreword by Tommy Orange. Scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people, he regains peace by immersing himself in the Indian past"-- Provided by publisher.

A Cage Went in Search of A Bird

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

What happens when Kafka's idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories by prizewinning, bestselling writers.

The Decameron Project

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT

A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from 29 authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat and more.

Czternaście nocy

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Co wieczór na dachu zaniedbanego budynku na nowojorskiej Lower East Side grupa sąsiadów zbiera się przy drinkach, by w świetle księżyca snuć niespieszne opowieści. Na zewnątrz szaleje pandemia, a lokatorzy kamienicy nie mogą czmychnąć do domów na wsi czy letnich rezydencji, jak od wieków w obliczu katastrofy czynią uprzywilejowani. Zamiast tego pozostaje im trzymać się razem, rozmawiać i spierać, ale przede wszystkim - dzielić się opowieściami. Tak jak w Dekameronie, Baśniach tysiąca i jednej nocy czy na kartach Rękopisu znalezionego w Saragossie z poplątanego wielogłosu wyłania się fascynująca opowieść i portret czasów, w których poczucie utraty i wspólnoty mogą iść w parze. Czternaście nocy to hołd oddany sztuce opowiadania. Na długo przed wynalezieniem pisma człowiek mierzył się z największymi wyzwaniami, snując historie. Opowieści pokazują nam, gdzie byliśmy i dokąd zmierzamy. Nadają sens bezsensownemu i przywracają porządek w chaosie. Każda z opowiedzianych tu historii wybrzmiewa zaś własnym głosem, bo w bohaterów Czternastu nocy wcieliły się jedne z najważniejszych obecnie postaci światowej literatury, od Margaret Atwood, przez Meg Wolitzer, Ishmaela Reeda, po Tess Gerritsen czy Johna Grishama.

The Decameron Project

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by The New York times magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world.

I Know What's Best for You

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

"This explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality. An enlisted sailor must choose between her military career and keeping an unexpected pregnancy. A mother of three decides to become a surrogate, but is unprepared for everything that happens next. A trans man's pregnancy forces them to approach their key relationships in a new way. A woman's choice to live a child-free life is put to the test when her husband's dying wish is for them to become parents. In their own unique and unforgettable way, each of the twenty-eight contributors responds to our crisis of access to care in ways that are at turns haunting, heartbreaking, and outright funny." -- page [4] of cover.

Stories From Quarantine

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by The New York times magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world.