Bøker av Tara Westover

#1NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL,ANDBOSTON GLOBEBESTSELLER*;NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW*;ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR*; BILL GATES'S HOLIDAY READING LIST*; FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S AWARD IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY *; FINALIST FORTHENATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK*; FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD*; FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES BOOK PRIZENAMED ONE OF PASTE'S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE *; NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post *; O: The Oprah Magazine *; Time *; NPR *; Good Morning America *; San Francisco Chronicle *; The Guardian *; The Economist *; Financial Times *; Newsday *; New York Post *; theSkimm *; Refinery29 *; Bloomberg *; Self *; Real Simple *; Town & Country *; Bustle *; Paste *; Publishers Weekly *; Library Journal *; LibraryReads *; BookRiot *; Pamela Paul, KQED *; New York Public LibraryAn unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge UniversityBorn to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.';Beautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Tara Westover's] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?'Vogue';Westover has somehow managed not only to capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to make her current situation seem not so exceptional at all, and resonant for many others.'The New York Times Book Review

En utrolig historie om overlevelse, fanatisme og verdien av kunnskapTara er sytten år gammel første gang hun setter sine ben i et klasserom. Hun vokser opp i fjellene i Idaho med foreldre som forbereder seg på dommedag: De bunkrer opp med mat, sover med fluktveske i senga og er motstandere av sykehus og leger. Som ungdom begynner Tara utdanne seg selv og klarer opptaksprøven til universitetet. Her lærer hun om verdensbegivenheter hun aldri har hørt om før, som Holocaust og om den amerikanske borgerrettsbevegelsen. Suget etter å vite mer, lære mer, forstå mer, bringer henne til Harvard og Cambridge. Først da begynner hun å spørre seg selv om hun har reist for langt. Om det fortsatt finnes en vei hjem.Noe tapt og noe vunnet fikk fantastiske kritikker og gikk rett inn på New York Times' bestselgerliste da den kom ut. Den gripende oppvekstfortellingen fra virkeligheten har vakt enorm internasjonal interesse og var på en rekke lister over de beste bøkene fra 2018, i alt fra Time Magazine til Vogue og The Economist. Amazon utropte den til årets beste bok i 2018.