En spännande skildring av en fysisk resa till Antarktis och en lika laddad upptäcktsfärd i minnet och det mänskliga psyket. Jenny Diskis färd går med en långsam båt. Under tiden gör hon också en egen, inre resa som går via barndomen och flera års vi…
Diski kliver i land i USA och möter, en smula avvaktande, en rad människor på sin resa. Människor fyllda av berättelser som väcker minnen hos henne själv. Hon reser genom sitt barndoms Amerika, det land som var ett drömland, och genom dagens USA, so…
Vad är det Jenny Diski inte vet om djur? Det vet hon inte riktigt. En sak vet hon dock: vårt förhållande och vår attityd till djur är det värt att titta lite närmare på.I den här underhållande boken visar Jenny Diski med eftertryck varför. Med avsta…
Vad är det Jenny Diski inte vet om djur? Det vet hon inte riktigt. En sak vet hon dock: vårt förhållande och vår attityd till djur är det värt att titta lite närmare på.I den här underhållande boken visar Jenny Diski med eftertryck varför.Med avstam…
Med skärpa, humor och självironi beskriver engelska Jenny Diski i Den motvilliga resenären hur hon, för att få uppleva mörkrets stillhet reser till Lappland. Det perfekta stället för ensamhet och kontemplation kan man tro. Men när en engelsk författ…
När Jenny Diski får diagnosen lungcancer med "två till tre år kvar att leva" vet hon inte hur hon ska reagera. Som författare bestämmer hon sig för att skriva om livet med sjukdomen. Och om sin femtio år långa komplicerade vänskap med nobelpristagar…
* Follows the prize winning memoir, Skating to Antarctica. * The story of her troubled teenage years in and out of psychiatric institutions intercut with a contemporary tale of travelling across America by train, surrounded by strangers.
'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny' Sunday Times'She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be' New YorkerJenny Diski…
Skating to Antarctica' is both an intimate memoir and a captivating travelogue of a journey to the bottom of the world.
Jenny Diski ger sig i "Främling på tåg" ut på en ny resa. Hon reser med tåg genom dagens USA och möter, en smula avvaktande, en rad människor. Människor fyllda av berättelser som väcker minnen hos henne själv. Hon minns sin barndoms Amerika, drömmar…
I sin nya roman utgår Jenny Diski från ett verkligt levnadsöde. Den unga Marie de Gournay läser år 1584 den franske filosofen Michel de Montaignes Essayer och svimmar av hänförelse! När hon äntligen får träffa honom sticker hon sig själv blodig med…
Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As in the highly acclaimed Skating…
What if God fell in love and the person was already married? A bitter story of the very first love triangle between a man, his wife, and their God First came Adam, whose fall soured His quest for absolute authority, then Noah, whose dreary sense of…
JENNY DISKI beslutter da hun er omkring de 50, at rejse til Antarktis. Det føles som en drift! Hun har ikke noget specielt formål med rejsen, ud over at hun længes efter det hvide, tyste og uberørte. Opholdet i Kahyt 532 på det russiske krydstogtski…
Jenny Diski's attempt to keep still and mentally idle resulted in a year in which she travelled to New Zealand, spent two months almost alone in a cottage in the country and visited the Sami people of Lapland. Diski, fails to keep still and, like th…
Continuing with her narration of the story of the Patriarchs in the Book of Genesis, After These Things is an account of the relationship between Abraham's tragic son Isaac and Isaac's son Jacob. The book follows the psychological trail of the child…
'One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation' Daily TelegraphIn August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. Being a writer, she decided to write about he…
The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality. Embarrassment, at first, to the exclusion of all other feelings. But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness ...I got a joke in. 'So - we'd better get cooking the meth,'…
* From the award-winning writer, following her memoirs, Skating to Antarctica, Stranger on a Train, On Trying to Keep Still - a unique book about animal watching, out now in paperback.
Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in orde…
Vad är det Jenny Diski inte vet om djur? Det vet hon inte riktigt. En sak vet hon dock: vårt förhållande och vår attityd till djur är det värt att titta lite närmare på. I den här underhållande boken visar Jenny Diski med eftertryck varför. Med avst…
As a general rule I try to maintain a balanced and realistic approach to life. I'm convinced that the best place for a rabbit's foot is at the end of a rabbit's leg. And if there are fairies at the bottom of the garden, they go about their business…
Nothing Natural centres with illuminating precision on a sado-masochistic relationship. Rachel is in her thirties, a single parent admired by her friends for her self-sufficiency ... But when she meets the compelling, sinister Joshua she discovers a…
Having seen enough of the results of autonomy and imagination with Adam and Eve, and dull obedience in the shape of the dutiful Noah, God tried once more to infiltrate humanity by seeking a solitary man whose history he could control and develop. Ab…
A novel that explores the nature of belief, the boundaries between madness and sanity, revelation and delusion, and good and evil.
A brilliant, alternative take on sixties swinging London, Jenny Diski offers radical reconsiderations of the social, political, and personal meaning of that turbulent era. What was Jenny Diski doing in the sixties? A lot: dropping out, taking drugs,…
"Caustically funny and ebullient stories. . . . Diski's is the kind of voice of which we need more, of which we now have one fewer. But she has paved a subversive path through the forest for others to follow." -- Vanity Fair *Named a Kirkus Reviews…
Focusing on chapter 11 of the book of Genesis, this story finds in Sarah and Abraham a love triangle featuring a man, a woman and the voice of God. As the creator and the childless wife wage war, they battle over the affections of a man and the very…
