Sheila Heti

La fotosíntesis es aburrida y estar vivo es un problema irresoluble incluso para una hoja. Impregnadas de preguntas aparentemente irresolubles, las páginas de este libro se ven atravesadas por una premisa velada: ¿Y si este mundo no fuese más que un primer borrador de la existencia dibujado para ser destruido? En este esbozo de la creación nos encontramos con Mira, una mujer que abandona su hogar para proseguir con sus estudios. En la Academia Americana...

Was wird gewonnen und was geht verloren, wenn eine Frau sich entschließt, ein Kind zu bekommen? In ihren späten Dreißigern, als die Freundinnen sich fragen, wann sie endlich Mutter werden, fragt Sheila Heti sich, ob sie es überhaupt werden will. In einer mehrere Jahre umspannenden Selbsterkundung, mal hierhin, mal dorthin gezogen von ihren Mitmenschen, ihrem Partner und den Verpflichtungen gegenüber ihren jüdischen Vorfahren, versucht sie eine...

In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation. In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti's intimate and urgent novel considers whether...

On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, now one of the leading intellectual lights of their generation. Reviewing a life of petty humiliations, and his friend's brilliant career, Ticknor sets out for the dinner party-a party at which he'd just as soon never arrive. Distantly inspired by the real-life friendship between the great historian William Hickling Prescott and his biographer,...

"An expansion of Sheila Heti's alphabetized diaries, which were excerpted as a newsletter in The New York Times"--

"A philosophical picture book about the death of a pet, exploring painful subjects with gentle words and lush pictures."--

Painter emerges into the streets of her own neighborhood, where she discovers a mixture of slightly out-of-balance young people. In a new take on the Shakespeare tragedy, Teenager Hamlet sharply explores how young people make art and make their morality in the city.