Etter solstormen må femten år gamle Maja og hele samfunnet klare seg uten elektrisitet. Forskjellen på fattig og rik handler nå om liv og død. Da kryper de fram: Dommedagspredikantene. De korrupte. Rottene. Men krisetider skaper også helter og heltinner - av de som eier et glødende hjerte og en sterk sans for rettferdighet.
Incapable. Awkward. Artless. That’s what the other girls whisper behind her back. But sixteen year-old Adelice Lewys has a secret: she wants to fail.Gifted with the ability to weave time with matter, she’s exactly what the Guild is looking for, and in the world of Arras, being chosen as a Spinster is everything a girl could want. It means privilege, eternal beauty, and being something other than a secretary. It also means the power to embroider the very fabric of life. But if controlling what people eat, where they live and how many children they have is the price of having it all, Adelice isn’t interested. Not that her feelings matter, because she slipped and wove a moment at testing, and they’re coming for her—tonight.Now she has one hour to eat her mom’s overcooked pot roast. One hour to listen to her sister’s academy gossip and laugh at her Dad’s stupid jokes. One hour to pretend everything’s okay. And one hour to escape. Because once you become a Spinster, there’s no turning back.
Her world ends at the edge of the vast domed barrier of energy enclosing all that’s left of humanity. For two hundred years the city has sustained this barrier by harvesting its children's innate magical energy when they reach adolescence. When it’s Lark’s turn to be harvested, she finds herself trapped in a nightmarish web of experiments and learns she is something out of legend itself: a Renewable, able to regenerate her own power after it’s been stripped.Forced to flee the only home she knows to avoid life as a human battery, Lark must fight her way through the terrible wilderness beyond the edge of the world. With the city’s clockwork creations close on her heels and a strange wild boy stalking her in the countryside, she must move quickly if she is to have any hope of survival. She’s heard the stories that somewhere to the west are others like her, hidden in secret – but can she stay alive long enough to find them?
Dette er historien om Massoumehsom vi følger fra hun er en ungjente på 1960-tallet under sjah-regimet. Gjennom fem årtier følger vi Massoumeh, i motgang og medgang, under vekslende regimer, en sterk kvinnes kamp for kjærlighet, rettferdighet og overlevelse. Hun vokser opp på landsbygda, men flytter etter hvert med familien til Teheran. Her treffer hun sitt livs store kjærlighet på vei til skolen, men da hennes dypt religiøse foreldre oppdager dette tvinger de henne til å gifte seg med en "lovende" ung mann, Hamid, som hun møter for første gang i bryllupet. Det viser seg snart at Hamid er en politisk opposisjonell som kjemper mot sjahen og hans diktatur. Da sjahen faller og Khomeinis presteregime tar makten blir Hamid en nasjonalhelt, men faller raskt i unåde hos styresmaktene igjen. Massoumeh blir tvunget til å forsørge seg og sine barn alene.Når hennes ungdoms store kjærlighet dukker opp igjen mange år senere, blir hun stilt ovenfor et nærmest umulig valg. Skal hun denne gangen følge sine egne følelser, eller nok engang ta hensyn til sin families ære? Parinoush Saniee har skrevet flere romaner, men "Det som ventet meg" er den første iranske myndigheter har tillatt for utgivelse. Boken er tidenes mest solgte i Iran, selv om den to ganger har vært forbudt.
When Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle in their grand plantation house, her mind is full of the poems of Keats and tales of romance . She is nonetheless unprepared for the beauty, fecundity and otherness of this island paradise between Africa and India, where she is to be waited on hand and foot by servants and free to let her thoughts drift on the sea breeze. If only they did not drift to such problematic subjects as the restrictions of colonial society, or the bigoted outbursts of her uncle, or the disquieting attractions of Don Lambodar, a young translator from Ceylon, himself entangled in thoughts of iniquity and desire and facing a decision
which could risk his precarious position. Under the surface there is growing unease. For it is 1825: Britain has wrested power from France and is shipping convict labour across the Indian Ocean. The age of slavery is coming to its messy end. Word is lapping against the shores of the island - of revolts in Europe and the Americas, and of a charismatic new Indian leader who will shine the light of liberty.
For Lucy, for Don, for everyone on the island, a devastating storm is coming... In this bold novel of intimate passions and colliding destinies, Romesh Gunesekera weaves together the story of two young lovers in search of freedom, and the eloquence of the bonded heart.
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