Praise for Perfume River :Finalist for the 2017 Southern Book PrizeLonglisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionOne of the Millions ' Most Anticipated Books of the YearButler's Faulknerian shuttling back and forth across the decades has less to do with literary pyrotechnics than with cutting to the chase. Perfume River hits its marks with a high-stakes intensity . . . Butler's particulars on the two brothers' marriages are comprehensively adroit . . . Butler's prose is fluid, and his handling of his many time-shifts as lucid as it is urgent. His descriptive gifts don't extend just to his characters' traits or their Florida and New Orleans settings, but to the history he's addressing . . . 'You share a war in one way,' Robert thinks. 'You pass it on in another.' Perfume River captures both the agony and subtlety of how that happens." - New York Times Book Review"This novel confronts the long aftermath of the Vietnam War . . . Butler roves gracefully . . . across the perspectives of many characters, showing particular tenderness in his depiction of Robert's wife, Darla, and her attempt to harmonize conflicting parts of her husband's life." - New Yorker (Briefly Noted)"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain revisits the Vietnam War in this contemporary novel about a family still wrestling with the conflict . . . Butler shifts POV seamlessly among his believably complicated characters." - Newsday"No synopsis can convey the deceptive richness of Butler's storytelling. The writing style, precise and beautiful, discloses more than the simple surface action of any one passage . . . Butler moves seamlessly between points of view, sometimes within the same paragraph . . . [A] deftly slip-sliding narrative . . . Butler greatly enlarges our sense of what the Vietnam War cost to a generation . . . [A] quietly bristling book . . . Perfume River tells a human story that sums up in an entire era of American life." - Miami Herald"The story builds its force with great care . . . Its power is that we want to keep reading. The entire journey is masterfully rendered, Butler lighting a path back into the cave, completely unafraid." - Benjamin Busch, Washington Post"The strength of this novel is its shifting point of view. Butler moves easily among his characters to create a composite portrait of a family that has been wrecked by choices made during the Vietnam War." - San Francisco Chronicle"A moving story of Vietnam's aftershocks . . . Poignant . . . [An] insightful portrait of a family shaped and shaken by war . . . Perfume River focuses on fathers and sons, but it also gives us a moving portrait of long marriages . . . Butler describes in wry, elegant detail . . . all the little battles and victories on the home front." - Tampa Bay Times"In Perfume River , Butler continues in his sensitive, highly nuanced, roaming style to explore the repercussions the [Vietnam] war has had on its American veterans, their families and their relationships . . . Eloquent . . . Once again, Butler has written a meaningful novel for the Vietnam War generation. And for their children and grandchildren." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch"As smart and eloquent as anything [Butler has] done before . . . This novel is rich in characterization, elegantly written and smart . . . Perfume River holds the reader tight as the action moves to its conclusion." - Alabama Public Radio"[A] thought-provoking new novel." - Susan Larson, WWNO, "The Reading Life""[An] extraordinary novel . . . Butler's elegant return to literary fiction proves his skill and grace once again." - Daily Breeze (Fall's Must-Read Books)"This latest from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Butler astutely reveals the Vietnam War's continuing impact on America through two families . . . By the end of this pristinely written novel, we come to see what war does to everyone. A complex story told with poignancy and an economy of means; highly recommended." - Library Journal (starred review)"Robert Olen Butler . . . has written eloquent works about Vietnam and its effect on families. He returns to these themes in Perfume River , a heartbreaking story of fathers and sons and their expectations and disappointments . . . Perfume River is a powerful work that asks profound questions about betrayal and loyalty. There are marvelous descriptions throughout . . . A provocative novel." - BookPage"An exceptional novel." - Advance Reading Copy"The prolific author best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain , returns to mine the fraught relationships of military fathers and sons in this searching portrait." - Atlanta Journal Constitution (13 Fall Books That Will Change the Way You See the South)"Butler's most famous work, the Pulitzer Prize-winning story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain , explored the Vietnam War and its aftermath from the perspective of the Vietnamese. With Perfume River , Butler argues that the war continues to exact a psychic toll on American soldiers and destroyed families, as well . . . Butler's prose moves seamlessly between 2015 and flashbacks, narrating personal histories in the present tense." - Chapter 16"An elegant work of fiction . . . Butler has amazed me with his uncanny ability to bore deeply inside his characters' hearts and minds and illuminate their deepest thoughts and emotions . . . Butler consistently offers up believable and insightful evocations of his characters' innermost feelings. He is also adept at two of the novelist's most difficult exposition and building a narrative to an unexpected ending . . . Butler handles this seamlessly . . . The ending is a surprise that's only one of the many satisfying elements in this terrific novel." - VVA Veteran"A deeply meditative reflection on aging and love, as seen through the prism of one family quietly torn asunder by the lingering effects of the Vietnam War. Butler, returning to contemporary literary fiction after three outstanding historical thrillers, shows again that he is a master of tone, mood, and character, whatever genre he chooses to explore. This is thoughtful, introspective fiction of the highest caliber, but it carries a definite edge, thanks to an insistent backbeat that generates suspense with the subtlest of brushstrokes." - Booklist (starred review)"Butler's assured, elegant novel explores a family fractured by the Vietnam War as its members face the losses of age . . . Eddying fluidly through its half-century span, the book speaks eloquently of the way the past bleeds into the present, history reverberates through individual lives, and mortality challenges our perceptions of ourselves and others." - Publishers Weekly"The climactic scene . . . is devastating and beautifully written. Many weighty themes . . . the shadow of Vietnam, the push and pull of father-son relationships, the pitfalls of long-term marriages, and the psychic toll of aging . . . Butler pulls it all together into a story that's both complex and meaningful." - Kirkus Reviews"What I so like about Perfume River is its plainly-put elegance. Enough time has passed since Viet Nam that its grave human lessons and heartbreaks can be - with a measure of genius - almost simply stated. Butler's novel is a model for this heartbreaking simplicity and grace." - Richard Ford "
وصف الكتاب | Stop having hard conversations with people who dont want to change. Stop showing up for people who are indifferent about your presence. Stop prioritizing people who make you an option. Stop loving people who arent ready to love you. The reality is that you exist in so many different forms and images and beliefs and storiesand yet, the only one that is ever really going to matter is the one you tell yourself. Healing is not a one-time event. It can begin with a one-time event typically some form of sudden loss that disrupts our projection of what the future might be. However, the true work of healing is allowing that disruption to wake us from a deep state of unconsciousness, to release the personas we adapted into, and begin consciously piecing together the full truth of who we were meant to be. In her follow-up collection to the international bestseller 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, Brianna Wiest shares 45+ new pieces that will help you find your inner sanctum and embark on the path of true transformation. Wiests words are a balm for any soul on the journey of their own becoming. |
عن المؤلف | Brianna Wiest is the international bestselling author of 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, The Mountain Is You, This Is How You Heal, two poetry collections and more. Her books have sold 1M+ copies, regularly appear on global bestseller lists, and are currently being translated into 20+ languages worldwide. |
نظريات كتكات : كتاب يتضمن بعض من قناعاتي في هذه الحياة ، وضعت هذه القناعات في صور و تشبيهات قد تكون غريبة أو مضحكة في الغالب و ذلك حتى يسهل فهمها و تذكرها بمجرد قراءة العنوان ، إن الإطار العام لكل نظرية يتألف من خمس مكونات ثابتة و هي : النص ، الشرح ، البرهان ، التطبيق ، الاستثناء. يتضمن النص أسطر محدودة توضح الفكرة العامة للنظرية ، بينما يتناول الشرح فقرات أكثر تفصيلا ، في حين يقدم البرهان مثالاً حياً لحدوثها بحياتنا اليومية ، و بالاطلاع على جزئية التطبيق تحت مسمى "ماذا أفعل؟" ، ستجد إرشادات سهلة و سريعة تمنحك شحنة فورية للاستفادة مما قرأت ، و أخيرا يوجد الاستثناء و هو يحتوي على السياق المعاكس الذي يكون فيه التطبيق عديم النفع لصاحبه أو جالبا للضرر عليه أو طارداً لفرصة قد تحقق الفائدة. أتمنى لك قراءة ممتعة.
عش حياتك اللحظة باللحظة بكل تفاصيلها واستمتع بها ..و اعطها وقتها ..و لا تستعجل أبداً كي لا تندم.. فالعمر قصير .. والوقت إن ذهب فلن يعود أبداً ولن يتكرر..
بواسطة Jonas Jonasson
The sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un ... Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Things are about to get very complicated ... Praise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man: 'A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully' Sunday Times 'Imaginative, laugh-out-loud . . . a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind' Daily Telegraph 'Fast-moving and relentlessly sunny' Guardian show more
برمجة الحياة : الكتاب يعد من الكتب التي تختصر مشاكل الحياة فيما يتعلق بجوانب الانسان الأسرية او الشخصية أو الاجتماعية . حيث عن بعض أمور الحياة نبذة بسيطة اختصارا للمضمون . فكل منا في هذه الدنيا يعاني من امر ما سواء من أفراح او أحزان والكتاب تحفيز وأمل وطمأنينة لكل انسان بهدف أن لا يخضع ويضعف أمام رحلة الحياة التي لا بد منا نحن كبشر أن نتجاوزها بكل شجاعة وحكمة وصبر حتى نكمل مسيرة العيش إلى أن نلقى الله عزوجل. فكتابي هذا هو مختصر لرحلة الحياة وفيه من العبر التي نتعلم ونستفيد من أخطائنا سواء في الحياة الشخصية او الأسرية أو الاجتماعية ، وكذلك فيه من الفوائد التي تنفعهم بإذن الله تعالى ..
نبذة عن الكتاب: كتاب القائد الذي ألهمني يشرح مفهوم القائد في القرن الواحد و العشرين و أهمية ممارسة القيادة على مختلف الأصعدة مهما كان المنصب الذي يشغله الفرد منا. و يحتوي على ١٠ فصول مختلفة و في كل فصل يتناول موضوعاً معيناً يستلهم القارئ منه فكرة جديدة و تدعم رغبته في القيادة على أي مستوى. نركز في هذا الكتاب على القيادة في مجال التربية مع محاولة تعميم الفكرة على كافة النطاقات الوظيفية و العملية و التطوعية من خلال الأمثلة المطروحة و الأفكار الإيجابية التي من شأنها أن تعزز دور الفرد في المجتمع. في الفصل الأول ، تطرح الكاتبة فكرتها الشخصية حول القيادة و أهمية الإلهام الذي يلعب دوراً رئيسيا في التعامل مع الأشخاص من حولنا. و تنتقل في الفصول التي تليها عن نمط معين من أنماط القيادة مع ذكر مثال عن شخصية معينة موضحة كيفية تطبيقه لهذا النمط. و تختم في الفصول الاخيرة الكتاب بالحديث عن أهمية التحفيز و العمل الجماعي. من خاتمة الكتاب: ابحث عن القائد الذي تستطيع تمثيله من مكان عملك و لا تنتظر أن تصبح في وظيفة معينة حتى تمارس هذا الدور ، لأنك ستتأخر كثيراً و سيسبقك الركب و لن ينتظرك أحد في زمن المتغيرات ، و اصنع الفارق الذي ترغب في إحداثه لأنك تستطيع بكل بساطة مادمت ترى في نفسك قائداً. و عندما تسعى لتحقيق الأفضل للآخرين فهذا يعني أنك تحقق ذاتك و عندما تسعى لتحقيق ذاتك مهتماً بتحقيق نرجسيتك فهذا يعني تهميش الآخرين و هذا أكثر ما يسيء للقائد. إن القيادة تعني أن أماً أو أباً يقودان الأسرة إلى بر الامان و أهم مخرجات تلك القيادة أبناء ذو خلق و تميز و صلاح ، و القيادة تعني أن معلماً يبحث عن أفضل ما يمكن تقديمه لطلابه و أهم مخرجاته طلاب ذو مستوى عال و سلوك متميز ، و القيادة تعني أن مسؤولأً يبحث عن توظيف قدرات موظفيه لتحقيق الأفضل لهم و للعمل. و في السطر الأخير.. كن قائداً ملهماً للآخرين و كفى!
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