Gabrielle Zevin
GABRIELLE ZEVIN is a New York Times best-selling novelist whose books have been translated into forty languages.Her tenth novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was published by Knopf in July of 2022 and was an instant New York Times Best Seller, a Sunday Times Best Seller, a USA Today Best Seller, a #1 National Indie Best Seller, and a selection of the Tonight Show’s Fallon Book Club. Maureen Corrigan of NPR’s Fresh Air called it, “a big beautifully written novel…that succeeds in being both serious art and immersive entertainment.” Following a twenty-five-bidder auction, the feature film rights to Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow were acquired by Temple Hill and Paramount Studios.The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry spent many months on the New York Times Best Seller List, reached #1 on the National Indie Best Seller List, was a USA Today Best Seller, and has been a best seller all around the world. A.J. Fikry was honored with the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award for Fiction, the Japan Booksellers’ Prize, and was long listed for the International Dublin Literary Award, among other honors. To date, the book has sold over five-million copies worldwide. It is now a feature film with a screenplay by Zevin. Young Jane Young won the Southern Book Prize and was one of the Washington Post’s Fifty Notable Works of Fiction.She is the screenwriter of Conversations with Other Women (Helena Bonham Carter) for which she received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best First Screenplay. She has occasionally written criticism for the New York Times Book Review and NPR’s All Things Considered, and she began her writing career, at age fourteen, as a music critic for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Zevin is a graduate of Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles.NOTE: Apologies, but Gabrielle doesn't reply to messages on Goodreads.
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin
On the faded Island Books sign hanging over the porch of the Victorian cottage is the motto “No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World.” A. J. Fikry, the irascible owner, is about to discover just what that truly means.
A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. Slowly but surely, he is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island—from Lambiase, the well-intentioned police officer who’s always felt kindly toward Fikry; from Ismay, his sister-in-law who is hell-bent on saving him from his dreary self; from Amelia, the lovely and idealistic (if eccentric) Knightley Press sales rep who keeps on taking the ferry over to Alice Island, refusing to be deterred by A.J.’s bad attitude. Even the books in his store have stopped holding pleasure for him. These days, A.J. can only see them as a sign of a world that is changing too rapidly.
And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore. It’s a small package, but large in weight. It’s that unexpected arrival that gives A. J. Fikry the opportunity to make his life over, the ability to see everything anew. It doesn’t take long for the locals to notice the change overcoming A.J.; or for that determined sales rep, Amelia, to see her curmudgeonly client in a new light; or for the wisdom of all those books to become again the lifeblood of A.J.’s world; or for everything to twist again into a version of his life that he didn’t see coming. As surprising as it is moving, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is an unforgettable tale of transformation and second chances, an irresistible affirmation of why we read, and why we love.
Young Jane Young
Gabrielle Zevin
This is the story of five women . . .
Meet Rachel Grossman.
She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything.
Meet Jane Young.
She’s disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time.
Meet Ruby Young.
She thinks her mom has a secret. She’s right.
Meet Embeth Levin.
She’s made a career of cleaning up her congressman husband’s messes.
Meet Aviva Grossman.
The Internet won’t let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions.
This is the story of five women . . .
. . . and the sex sexist scandal that binds them together.
From Gabrielle Zevin, the bestselling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, comes another story with unforgettable characters that is particularly suited to the times we live in now . . .
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Gabrielle Zevin
If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her "Chief." She'd know about her mom's new family. She'd know about her dad's fiancée. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn't have wanted to kiss him back.
But Naomi picked heads.
After her remarkable debut, Gabrielle Zevin has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances.
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
All These Things I've Done (Birthright, #1)
Gabrielle Zevin
In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend. That is until her ex is accidentally poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think she's to blame. Suddenly, Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight--at school, in the news, and most importantly, within her mafia family.Engrossing and suspenseful, All These Things I've Done is an utterly unique, unputdownable read that blends both the familiar and the fantastic.
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin
A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. But when a mysterious package appears at the bookstore, its unexpected arrival gives Fikry the chance to make his life over--and see everything anew.
De Amanhã em Amanhã
Gabrielle Zevin
Num gélido dia de dezembro, Sam Masur está a sair de uma carruagem de metro quando vê, por entre a multidão na plataforma, a sua melhor amiga de infância, Sadie Green. A amizade entre ambos terminara abruptamente quase uma década antes. O que não o impede agora de chamar por ela. Por um momento, ela finge não ouvir, mas acaba por ceder e olhar para ele. É assim que tudo (re)começa.
O que se segue é uma relação que se tornará lendária. Juntos criam um jogo de computador revolucionário chamado ICHIGO, no qual o jogador pode escapar às limitações do corpo e da vida. O universo digital encerra infinitas oportunidades para começar de novo, sabendo mais, errando menos. É aí que Sam e Sadie descobrem uma intimidade que não são capazes de alcançar no mundo físico. O sucesso avassalador de ICHIGO traz-lhes fama e fortuna antes mesmo de completarem 25 anos, mas não os protege das suas ambições, obsessões criativas e paixões. Nem os impede de crescer.
Esta é a história dos mundos perfeitos que Sam e Sadie constroem, por oposição ao mundo imperfeito em que vivem. Fala-nos das complexidades da vida, e da busca por aqueles lugares - e pessoas, e coisas - que confortam e validam a nossa existência. E, sim, é uma história de amor, mas não no sentido tradicional. Porque há muitos tipos de amor… e este - em toda a sua beleza, drama e a dor - é o de Sam e Sadie.
Because It Is My Blood (Birthright, #2)
Gabrielle Zevin
Because It Is My Blood In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible. Full description
Une vie ailleurs
Gabrielle Zevin
Liz Hall, 15 ans, vient de mourir dans un accident de vélo. Elle se retrouve sur Ailleurs, un lieu où les défunts rajeunissent jusqu'à redevenir bébés avant de repartir dans le grand cycle de l'humanité... Pour Liz, qui rêvait d'atteindre enfin ses seize ans, le choc est brutal. Car elle n'a aucune envie de rajeunir. Ce qu'elle voulait, c'était décrocher son permis de conduire. Entrer à la fac. Connaître le grand amour. Il va pourtant lui falloir faire le deuil de son ancienne vie sur Terre avant de trouver un sens à cette nouvelle existence...
In the Age of Love and Chocolate (Birthright, #3)
Gabrielle Zevin
All These Things I’ve Done, the first novel in the Birthright series, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen-year-old with the heart of a girl and the responsibilities of a grown woman. Now eighteen, life has been more bitter than sweet for Anya. She has lost her parents and her grandmother, and has spent the better part of her high school years in trouble with the law. Perhaps hardest of all, her decision to open a nightclub with her old nemesis Charles Delacroix has cost Anya her relationship with Win.
Still, it is Anya’s nature to soldier on. She puts the loss of Win behind her and focuses on her work. Against the odds, the nightclub becomes an enormous success, and Anya feels like she is on her way and that nothing will ever go wrong for her again. But after a terrible misjudgment leaves Anya fighting for her life, she is forced to reckon with her choices and to let people help her for the first time in her life.
In the Age of Love and Chocolate is the story of growing up and learning what love really is. It showcases the best of Gabrielle Zevin’s writing for young adults: the intricate characterization of Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac and the big-heartedness of Elsewhere. It will make you remember why you loved her writing in the first place.
Mañana, y mañana, y mañana
Gabrielle Zevin
PREMIO GOODREADS 2022
MEJOR NOVELA DEL AÑO PARA LA REVISTA TIME
Una apasionante historia sobre los videojuegos, la amistad y la superación
Un gélido día de diciembre de su primer año en Harvard, Sam Masur sale de un vagón de metro y ve, entre las hordas de gente que esperan en el andén, a Sadie Green. La llama a gritos. Por un momento, ella hace como que no lo ha oído, pero entonces se vuelve y empieza la partida: una colaboración legendaria que los lanzará al estrellato. Piden dinero prestado, favores y, antes incluso de graduarse, firman su primera superproducción: Ichigo, un juego en el que uno puede escapar de los confines del cuerpo y las traiciones del corazón, en el que la muerte no significa más que una oportunidad para recomenzar y volver a jugar.
Esta novela narra la historia de los mundos perfectos que construyen Sam y Sadie, el mundo imperfecto en el que viven y de todo lo que viene después del éxito: el dinero, la fama, la traición, la tragedia. La trama se extiende a lo largo de más de treinta años, va de Cambridge (Massachusetts) a Venice Beach (California), pasando por tierras intermedias y otros mundos.
Mañana, y mañana, y mañana es una novela deslumbrante y compleja que ahonda en la naturaleza multifacética de la identidad: en los videojuegos como forma de expresión artística; en la tecnología y la experiencia humana; en la discapacidad; el fracaso; las posibilidades de redención; los mundos virtuales, y, sobre todo, en nuestra necesidad de conectar: de amar y ser amados. Sí, es una historia de amor, pero única en su especie.
Między książkami
Gabrielle Zevin
Przepis na komedię romantyczną a la Notting Hill w książkowym wydaniu!
Urokliwa opowieść o właścicielu przytulnej, ale kiepsko prosperującej księgarenki, który po śmierci żony próbuje poskładać życie na nowo. Odnalezienie porzuconej między książkami dwuletniej dziewczynki-sieroty i spotkanie z energiczną przedstawicielką małego wydawnictwa wywróci jego świat do góry nogami. Pogodna opowieść o tym, że zawsze jest czas na nowy początek.
Są różne sposoby, by żyć wśród książek. Nicole i Ajay rezygnują ze studiów doktoranckich, by otworzyć małą księgarnię na Alice Island. Jako zupełne przeciwieństwa wiodą szczęśliwe życie – aż do wypadku, w którym ginie Nicole.
Śmierć żony sprawia, że Ajay się załamuje. Coraz bardziej izoluje się od świata – Amelię, agentkę z wydawnictwa, od którego przyjmował książki, niemalże wyrzuca z domu, regularnie się upija i powoli zaczyna tracić kontakt z rzeczywistością. Do momentu, w którym po jednej z upojnych nocy nie zostaje okradziony z jedynej rzeczy, która ma dla niego jeszcze jakąś wartość – pierwszego wydania Tamerlana, tomu poezji Edgara Allana Poego. Pewnego dnia natomiast Ajay ma wrażenie, że jego życie zmieniło się w jakąś wariacką powieść – po powrocie do domu zastaje tam dwuletnią płaczącą dziewczynkę, porzuconą przez matkę. Nie potrzeba wiele czasu, by Maja stała się jego oczkiem w głowie. To właśnie dla niej postanawia sporządzić wyjątkową listę lektur...
Gabrielle Zevin udaje się stworzyć świat, w którym bohaterowie stają się tak samo ważni jak postaci i autorzy z książek. Magia małej księgarni stopniowo odmienia życie ludzi, a wszystko to w towarzystwie Munro, O'Connor, McCarthy'ego i Poego.
Amanhã, amanhã, e ainda outro amanhã
Gabrielle Zevin
Neste romance emocionante da autora best-seller de A vida do livreiro A. J. Fikry e Em outrolugar, dois amigos – que sempre se amaram, mas nunca foram amantes – se unem em uma parceria criativa na indústria dos videogames, um mundo que lhes traz fama, felicidade, tragédia, dúvidas e, de certa forma, imortalidade.
Em um dia congelante de dezembro, no seu terceiro ano em Harvard, Sam Masur sai do metrô e vê, entre uma horda de pessoas esperando na plataforma, Sadie Green. Ele a chama. Por um momento, ela finge não ouvir, mas então se vira, e um jogo começa: uma colaboração lendária que vai levá-los ao estrelato. Esses amigos, próximos desde a infância, pegam dinheiro emprestado, pedem favores e, antes mesmo de se formarem, lançam seu primeiro sucesso, Ichigo. De um dia para o outro, o mundo é deles. Com menos de vinte e cinco anos, Sam e Sadie são brilhantes, bem-sucedidos e ricos, mas essas vantagens não vão protegê-los de suas próprias ambições criativas e das traições do coração.
Abarcando mais de trinta anos da vida dos protagonistas, de Cambridge à Califórnia, passando por lugares distantes, reais e virtuais, Amanhã, amanhã, e ainda outro amanhã é uma história intrincada, imaginativa e tocante que examina a natureza múltipla e complexa de nossos fracassos, identidades e deficiências, das possibilidades redentoras dos jogos e, acima de tudo, de nossa necessidade de conexão, de amar e sermos amados. Sim, é uma história de amor, mas diferente de tudo que você já leu.
Jutro, jutro i znów jutro
Gabrielle Zevin
Kiedy Sam i Sadie, dwoje zauroczonych sobą przyjaciół, staje się partnerami w świecie projektowania gier wideo, niespodziewany sukces przynosi im nie tylko sławę i radość, ale też stawia przed nimi najtrudniejszą życiową układankę, w której trzeba pogodzić pracę, przyjaźń, rodzinę i miłość...
W mroźny grudniowy dzień na pierwszym roku studiów na Harvardzie Sam Masur wysiada z wagonu metra i w tłumie czekających na peronie ludzi widzi Sadie Green. Wykrzykuje jej imię. Dziewczyna przez chwilę udaje, że nie słyszała wołania, lecz potem się odwraca i gra się rozpoczyna: legendarna współpraca, która przyniesie im sławę. Przyjaciele, będący od dzieciństwa w zażyłej relacji, pożyczają pieniądze na wspólny projekt, otrzymują wsparcie od znajomych i jeszcze przed ukończeniem college'u tworzą swój pierwszy superprzebój – grę Ichigo. Z dnia na dzień świat leży u ich stóp. Sam i Sadie są młodzi, genialni, bogaci i sławni. To jednak nie ochroni ich przed przerostem twórczych ambicji i uczuciowymi zawodami...
Olśniewająca, misternie skonstruowana powieść ukazuje istotę dojrzewania i emocjonalnej tożsamości, ale przede wszystkim akcentuje nasze potrzeby więzi – bycia kochanym i kochania. Tak, to jest historia miłosna, ale zupełnie nie taka, jakie dotąd czytaliście…
Imorgon och imorgon och imorgon
Gabrielle Zevin
Sam och Sadie träffas på ett sjukhus 1987. Sadie besöker sin cancersjuka syster och Sam återhämtar sig från en bilolycka. De två ensamma själarna förenas i den gemensamma kärleken till dataspel, och när de av en slump möts igen åtta år senare inleder de ett samarbete som för dem till oanade höjder: de blir superstjärnor i spelvärlden. Men i verkligheten är saker och ting inte lika fulländade som i spelens virtuella värld. Imorgon och imorgon och imorgon följer Sam och Sadie genom åren av professionell framgång och personliga motgångar, samtidigt som samhället och deras relation förändras.
Gabrielle Zevin har skrivit en förtrollande roman om kärlek, men inte en kärleksroman. Den har tagit världen med storm, bland annat utnämndes den till Amazon Book of the Year.
Morgen, morgen und wieder morgen
Gabrielle Zevin
Mitte der 90er-Jahre in Massachusetts: An einer U-Bahn-Station trifft Sadie, hochbegabte Informatikstudentin und angehende Designerin von Computerspielen, ihren früheren Super-Mario-Partner Sam wieder. Die beiden beginnen, gemeinsam an einem Spiel zu arbeiten, und schnell zeigt sich, dass sie nicht nur auf freundschaftlicher, sondern auch auf kreativer Ebene ein gutes Team sind. Doch als ihr erstes gemeinsames Computerspiel zum Hit wird, brechen sich Rivalitäten Bahn, die ihre Verbundenheit zu bedrohen scheinen.
Die Widerspenstigkeit des Glücks
Gabrielle Zevin
Amelia ist Verlagsvertreterin und lernt dabei die eigenwilligsten Buchhändler kennen. Genau so einer ist A. J. Fikry. In seinem Herzen haben nur turmhohe Bücherstapel Platz. Bis er einen ungebetenen Gast entdeckt: Eines Morgens sitzt die zweijährige Waise Maya in der Kinderbuchecke seiner Buchhandlung. Gegen seinen Willen nimmt sich A. J. des kleinen Mädchens an, das sein Leben kurzerhand auf den Kopf stellt. Und auch Amelia wird er nicht so schnell vergessen können …
Elsewhere
Gabrielle Zevin
Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere's museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe's psychiatric practice.
Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driver's license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. And now that she's dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn't want with a grandmother she has only just met. And it is not going well. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward?
This moving, often funny book about grief, death, and loss will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.
Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.
The Hole We're In
Gabrielle Zevin
From award winning writer Gabrielle Zevin comes a biting, powerful, and deliciously entertaining novel about an American family and their misguided efforts to stay afloat--spiritually, morally and financially. Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school, only to find his true ambitions at odds with the temptations of the present. His wife, Georgia, tries to keep things in order at home, but she's been feeding the bill drawer with unopened envelopes for months and can never find the right moment to confront its swelling contents. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, Roger and Georgia make a series of choices that have catastrophic consequences for their three children--especially for Patsy, the youngest, who will spend most of her life fighting to overcome them. The Hole We're In shines a spotlight on some of the most relevant issues of our day--over-reliance on credit, vexed gender and class politics, the war in Iraq--but it is Zevin's deft exploration of the fragile economy of family life that makes this a book for the ages.
I morgen og i morgen og i morgen
Gabrielle Zevin
To venner, ofte forelskede, men aldrig elskende, bliver hinandens kreative partnere i et univers af fiktive verdener og videospil, hvis succes bringer dem glæde, berømmelse, tragedier, sorg og i sidste ende en slags udødelighed.
På en kedelig kold dag i december får den universitetsstuderende Sam Masur øje på Sadie Green i mængden af mennesker på en togstation. Han kalder på hende. Et øjeblik lader hun, som om hun ikke har hørt ham, men så vender hun sig alligevel om, og spillet mellem dem begynder. Det bliver begyndelsen på et legendarisk samarbejde, som vil katapultere dem til stjernestatus. De to barndomsvenner bruger al deres tid, de slider, låner penge, tigger sig til tjenester og ender med at skabe deres første blockbuster-succes sammen: Spillet Ichigo. På hvad der føles som et splitsekund ligger verden for deres fødder. Men hverken pengene eller succesen kan beskytte dem fra deres egne ambitioner og forræderi.
'I morgen og i morgen og i morgen' strækker sig over tre årtier, fra Cambridge i Massachusetts til Venice Beach i Californien og fortælles både her og der og langt væk derfra. En anderledes og eventyrlig indviklet historie om identitet, livets tragedier og de muligheder, man kun får i fantasien. Men måske allermest en historie om menneskers behov for at høre til og blive set, elske og elske nogen tilbage.
Ja, det er en kærlighedshistorie, men denne her, har du aldrig læst før …
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Gabrielle Zevin
"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
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