Bøker av Gabriel Tallent

Min eneste elskede er en rystende oppvekstfortelling fra USAs vestkyst. Originalt og insisterende fortalt historie, skrevet av en debutant som med et eget språk skildrer rå overlevelse i et fiendtlig miljø. 14 år gamle Turtle Alveston kjenner skogene ved Nord-Californias kyst bedre enn noen annen. Men der bekker, viker og odder byr på grenseløst med utendørs tumleplass, er hennes private verden innskrenket og truende: Turtle har vokst opp med sin karismatiske, men plagede far, Martin. Etter morens død har familien vært isolert. Den eneste forbindelsen til omverdenen er skolen, der de andre elevene oppfatter Turtle som en ensom ulv.Men da Turtle gjennom den eldre gutten Jacob for første gang opplever ekte vennskap, ja, til og med en første tenåringsforelskelse, begynner hun å ta inn verden med et annet blikk. Hun ser for første gang livet med faren som det det egentlig er, nemlig farlig og uholdbart. For å kunne begynne på nytt må hun først bryte med fortiden - ved hjelp av de overlevelsesteknikkene som faren har lært henne. Det som følger, er en opprivende historie om mot og håp og om redning og oppretting av fortidens feil. Om hvordan en tenåringsjente må kjempe både fysisk og følelsesmessig for å ta livet tilbake.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALISTNBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALISTONE OF THENEW YORK TIMES'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017ONE OF NPR'S ';GREAT READS' OF 2017A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN AMAZON.COM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A BUSINESS INSIDER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"e;Impossible to put down."e;NPR"e;A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping.'The Washington Post "e;The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, butMy Absolute Darlingabsolutely is one."e; Stephen KingA brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father.Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. With Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, the reader watches, heart in throat, as this teenage girl struggles to become her own heroand in the process, becomes ours as well.Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.