Alice

Alice består af fem fortællinger om døden, hvor Alice oplever, genoplever eller bearbejder en mandlig vens, et mandligt familiemedlems eller en mandlig samlevers død. "Et lille under af en bog." – Thomas Thurah, Politiken, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ "Det er noget af det skønneste, jeg har læst i lang, lang tid! Hvilket sprog, hvilken elegance. En meget stor oplevelse. Og så er den helt vidunderligt oversat." – Naja Marie Aidt "En kreds af fortællinger om det at dø og det at være tilbage. Lavmælt, næsten begivenhedsløst, meget intenst og ekstremt fintfølt." – Klaus Rothstein, Weekendavisen "Hvis man kan forestille sig en slags legering af Helle Helle og Christina Hesselholdt, så har man en idé om Judith Hermanns prosa. Sætningerne er korte og afpudsede som Helle Helles, men mættede med refleksion og dødsbevidsthed som Christina Hesselholdts. ... Det er stor litterær kunst." – Lilian Munk Rösing, Information "Anmelderroste Judith Hermann skriver dybt fascinerende om døden og dens betydning for de levende. (-) Der er tale om fremragende fortællinger, som både fungerer hver for sig og som samlet udgivelse. … I stedet for at skrive om selve dødserfaringen har hun i disse noveller fokus på de voldsomme rystelser og den tomhed, som døden efterlader." – Moritz Schramm, Kristeligt Dagblad

"Et lille under af en bog." Politiken 6 hjerter "Judith Hermanns noveller er små, stillestående tableauer - og alligevel måler de mindst 6,5 på Richterskalaen. Det er formidabel skrivekunst, stille jordskælv i verdensklasse." BogMagasinet 5 stjerner Berlingske, Jyllands-Posten, Nordjyske og Fyens Stiftstidende Judith Hermann blev født i 1970 i Berlin. Her oplevede hun som nittenårig murens fald, og her bor og arbejder hun den dag i dag. I sine to første bøger, novellesamlingerne Sommerhus, senere (1998) og Spøgelser, overalt (2003), portrætterede hun sin egen rastløse og rodløse generation. Ordknapt og realistisk, men samtidig også poetisk skildrede hun de nogle og tyveårige tyskeres ambivalente længsel efter forpligtende kærlighedsforhold. I sin tredje og seneste bog, novellesamlingen Alice (2009), portrætterer Judith Hermann en kvinde sidst i trediverne. Den første af de fem noveller foregår i en tysk provinsby, den anden i Italien, de tre sidste i Berlin. I hver af dem oplever, genoplever eller bearbejder den gennemgående hovedfigur Alice en mandlig vens, et mandligt familiemedlems eller en mandlig samlevers død. Dødsfaldene er ikke spektakulære. Vi ser Alice på hospitalsbesøg. Vi hører hende tale. Vi følger hende på hendes vej gennem Berlins gader, mens hun på skift forsøger at huske og glemme. Vejret og årstiden skifter. Imens rydder Alice op i garderober, gennembladrer breve og sorterer gamle grammofonplader. Alt er på samme tid almindeligt og anderledes. Det er som om døden oplyser tingene indefra. I Tyskland er de tre novellesamlinger solgt i mere end 1 million eksemplarer. Klip fra anmeldelser: "Det er stor litterær kunst." Information "Lavmælt, næsten begivenhedsløst, meget intenst og ekstremt fintfølt." Weekendavisen "Det er noget af det skønneste jeg har læst i lang lang tid! Hvilket sprog, hvilken elegance. En meget stor oplevelse. Og så er den helt vidunderligt oversat." Naja Marie Aidt ”En ny bog af Judith Hermann er i alle tilfælde en begivenhed. Hun er en af de vigtigste forfattere de senere år, hendes talent er enormt, og hendes stemme kan ikke forveksles med nogen anden” Die Welt

In a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City, there stands a hospital with cinderblock walls which echo with the screams of the poor souls inside.In the hospital, there is a woman. Her hair, once blonde, hangs in tangles down her back. She doesn't remember why she's in such a terrible place-just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and blood...Then, one night, a fire at the hospital gives the woman a chance to escape, tumbling out of the hole that imprisoned her, leaving her free to uncover the truth about what happened to her all those years ago.Only something else has escaped with her. Something dark. Something powerful.And to find the truth, she will have to track this beast to the very heart of the Old City, where the rabbit waits for his Alice.

In a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City, there stands a hospital with cinderblock walls which echo with the screams of the poor souls inside.In the hospital, there is a woman. Her hair, once blonde, hangs in tangles down her back. She doesn't remember why she's in such a terrible place-just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and blood...Then, one night, a fire at the hospital gives the woman a chance to escape, tumbling out of the hole that imprisoned her, leaving her free to uncover the truth about what happened to her all those years ago.Only something else has escaped with her. Something dark. Something powerful.And to find the truth, she will have to track this beast to the very heart of the Old City, where the rabbit waits for his Alice.

But the servants! Anything might happen to them. They might go in a train to Woolwich and meet the love of their lives, or be murdered almost for the asking. Not that one wanted to be murdered exactly, but there was frustration in being denied the possibility. From an author The Queen called “a humorist of the first order” comes the deliciously dark tale of the strange and woeful young womanhood of Margaret, the narrator of Elizabeth Eliot’s debut novel, and her friend Alice, from their final year at boarding-school in the late 1920s until just before World War II. The girls have adventures at school, are presented at court, and experience the vicissitudes of high society and their eccentric, increasingly impoverished families. Alice marries, unhappily, and involves Margaret in her hardships, until she suddenly decides—with fabulous success—to become an actress. And through it all the young women engage in loopy existential ponderings about their fates, gleefully detailing the radical instability of their world. Anxious characters marooned in a world without safe harbour—a tragic circumstance, but, in Eliot’s hands, an absolutely hilarious one. Evoking by turn the morbid humour of Barbara Comyns and the high society sorrows of Rachel Ferguson, Alice is very much its own brilliant confection. Furrowed Middlebrow and Dean Street Press also publish three of Eliot’s later novels—Henry, Mrs. Martell, and Cecil—all back in print for the first time in more than half a century. They all feature a new introduction by Elizabeth Crawford. “Miraculously good . . . delightful and wise and irreproachably understanding” The Bookman “This is surely the most impressive first novel of the year. Elizabeth Eliot is a writer to watch” The Queen “A first novel of singular originality . . . so endearing in spirit that it is hard not to feel for it a kind of personal affection” Daily Telegraph “I can pay her no higher compliment than to say that the nearest thing to it I know in literature are the deliciously malicious books of Elizabeth and Her German Garden.” The Sphere “An enticing book” Tatler “Miss Eliot is a superb portrait painter” The Spectator

»Die Planeten laufen langsam. Aber sie machen ihre Transite. Und dann ändert sich dein ganzes Leben.« Wenn jemand geht, der dir nahe ist, ändert sich dein ganzes Leben, es ändert sich, ob du willst oder nicht. Alles wird anders. Alice ist die Heldin dieser fünf Geschichten, alle erzählen von ihr - und davon, wie das Leben ist und das Lieben, wenn Menschen nicht mehr da sind. Dinge bleiben zurück, Bücher, Briefe, Bilder, und ab und zu täuscht man sich in einem Gesicht. Lebenswege kreuzen sich, ändern die Richtung und werden unwiederbringlich auseinandergeführt. Die Autorin von »Sommerhaus, später« und »Nichts als Gespenster« schreibt Geschichten von ungeheurer Kraft und großer literarischer Schönheit.

»Die Planeten laufen langsam. Aber sie machen ihre Transite. Und dann ändert sich dein ganzes Leben.« Wenn jemand geht, der dir nahe ist, ändert sich dein ganzes Leben, es ändert sich, ob du willst oder nicht. Alles wird anders. Alice ist die Heldin dieser fünf Geschichten, alle erzählen von ihr - und davon, wie das Leben ist und das Lieben, wenn Menschen nicht mehr da sind. Dinge bleiben zurück, Bücher, Briefe, Bilder, und ab und zu täuscht man sich in einem Gesicht. Lebenswege kreuzen sich, ändern die Richtung und werden unwiederbringlich auseinandergeführt. Die Autorin von »Sommerhaus, später« und »Nichts als Gespenster« schreibt Geschichten von ungeheurer Kraft und großer literarischer Schönheit.

The remarkable, moving story of Prince Philip's mother by eminent biographer Hugo Vickers, updated in this new edition - for fans of Kingmaker and The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse 'Gripping. Hugo Vickers has pulled off an extraordinary feat in describing the life - in many ways tragic - of Princess Andrew of Greece. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is a masterpiece.' - A. N. Wilson Princess Alice , mother of Prince Phillip, was something of a mystery figure even within her own family. Profoundly deaf, she was born at Windsor Castle in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, and brought up in England, Darmstadt, and Malta. In 1903 she married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and from then on her life was overshadowed by wars, revolutions, enforced periods of exile. Further crisis hit when, at the age of forty-five, she was removed from her family and placed in a sanatorium in Switzerland, where she was pronounced a paranoid schizophrenic. As her stay in the clinic became prolonged, there was a time where it seemed she might never walk free again. Yet she recovered. Illuminating and enthralling, eminent biographer Hugo Vickers's account of her life is as tumultuous and extraordinary as the times she lived through. ----- CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR ALICE : 'Vickers tells this story with a sure touch and an expertise that only he can command' SUNDAY TIMES 'A sympathetic, piquant and well-defined portrait of a spirited woman' LITERARY REVIEW 'Sympathetic yet free of pathos, Vickers's life celebrates an unusual and fascinating woman' KIRKUS

The remarkable, moving story of Prince Philip's mother by eminent biographer Hugo Vickers, updated in this new edition - for fans of Kingmaker and The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse 'Gripping. Hugo Vickers has pulled off an extraordinary feat in describing the life - in many ways tragic - of Princess Andrew of Greece. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is a masterpiece.' - A. N. Wilson Princess Alice , mother of Prince Phillip, was something of a mystery figure even within her own family. Profoundly deaf, she was born at Windsor Castle in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, and brought up in England, Darmstadt, and Malta. In 1903 she married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and from then on her life was overshadowed by wars, revolutions, enforced periods of exile. Further crisis hit when, at the age of forty-five, she was removed from her family and placed in a sanatorium in Switzerland, where she was pronounced a paranoid schizophrenic. As her stay in the clinic became prolonged, there was a time where it seemed she might never walk free again. Yet she recovered. Illuminating and enthralling, eminent biographer Hugo Vickers's account of her life is as tumultuous and extraordinary as the times she lived through. ----- CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR ALICE : 'Vickers tells this story with a sure touch and an expertise that only he can command' SUNDAY TIMES 'A sympathetic, piquant and well-defined portrait of a spirited woman' LITERARY REVIEW 'Sympathetic yet free of pathos, Vickers's life celebrates an unusual and fascinating woman' KIRKUS