Matrix
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York...
WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York...
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and more!
A relentless exhibition of Groff s freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel s Thomas Cromwell . USA Today
An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable. O, The Oprah Magazine
Thrilling and heartbreaking. Time Magazine
[A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her. New York Times
One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies.
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.
At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie s vision be bulwark enough?
Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix
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gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. Lauren Groff s new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.
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She rides out of the forest alone. Seventeen years old, in the cold March drizzle, Marie who comes from France.
It is 1158 and the world bears the weariness of late Lent. Soon it will be Easter, which arrives early this year. In the fields, the seeds uncurl in the dark cold soil, ready to punch into the freer air. She sees for the first time the abbey, pale and aloof on a rise in this damp valley, the clouds drawn up from the ocean and wrung against the hills in constant rainfall. Most of the year this place is emerald and sapphire, bursting under dampness, thick with sheep and chaffinches and newts, delicate mushrooms poking from the rich soil, but now in late winter, all is gray and full of shadows.
Her old warhorse glumly plods along and a merlin shivers in its wicker mew on the box mounted behind her.
The wind hushes. The trees cease stirring.
Marie feels that the whole countryside is watching her move through it.
She is tall, a giantess of a maiden, and her elbows and knees stick out, ungainly; the fine rain gathers until it runs in rivulets down her sealskin cloak and darkens her green headcloths to black. Her stark Angevin face holds no beauty, only canniness and passion yet unchecked. It is wet with rain, not tears. She has yet to cry for having been thrown to the dogs.
Two days earlier, Queen Eleanor had appeared in the doorway of Marie's chamber, all bosom and golden hair and sable fur lining the blue robe and jewels dripping from ears and wrists and shining chapelet and perfume strong enough to knock a soul to the ground. Her intention was always to disarm by stunning. Her ladies stood behind her, hiding their smiles. Among these traitors was Marie's own half sister, a bastardess sibling of the crown just like Marie, the sum of errant paternal lusts; but this simpering creature, having understood
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the uses of popularity in the court, had blanched and run from Marie's attempts to befriend her. She would one day become a princess of the Welsh.
Marie curtsied clumsily, and Eleanor glided into the room, her nostrils twitching.
The queen said that she had news, oh what delightful news, what relief, she had just now received the papal dispensation, the poor horse had exploded its heart it had galloped so fast to bring it here this morning. That, due to her, the queen's, own efforts over these months, this poor illegitimate Marie from nowhere in Le Maine had at last been made prioress of a royal abbey. Wasn't that wonderful. Now at last they knew what to do with this odd half sister to the crown. Now they had a use for Marie at last.
The queen's heavily lined eyes rested upon Marie for a moment, then moved to the high window that overlooked the gardens, where the shutters were thrust open so Marie could stand on her toes and watch people walking outside.
When Marie's mouth could move, she said, thickly, that she was grateful to the queen for the radiance of her attention, but oh no she could not be a nun, she was unworthy, and besides she had no godly vocation whatsoever in any way, at all.
And it was true, the religion she was raised in had always seemed vaguely foolish to her, if rich with mystery and ceremony, for why should babies be born into sin, why should she pray to the invisible forces, why would god be a trinity, why should she, who felt her greatness hot in her blood, be considered lesser because the first woman was molded from a rib and ate a fruit and thus lost lazy Eden? It was senseless. Her faith had twisted very early in her childhood; it would slowly grow ever more bent into its geometry until it was its own angular, majestic thing.
But at seventeen, in this spare chamber at the court in Westminster, she could be no equal to the elegant and story-loving queen, who, though small in body, absorbed all light, all though
Marie curtsied clumsily, and Eleanor glided into the room, her nostrils twitching.
The queen said that she had news, oh what delightful news, what relief, she had just now received the papal dispensation, the poor horse had exploded its heart it had galloped so fast to bring it here this morning. That, due to her, the queen's, own efforts over these months, this poor illegitimate Marie from nowhere in Le Maine had at last been made prioress of a royal abbey. Wasn't that wonderful. Now at last they knew what to do with this odd half sister to the crown. Now they had a use for Marie at last.
The queen's heavily lined eyes rested upon Marie for a moment, then moved to the high window that overlooked the gardens, where the shutters were thrust open so Marie could stand on her toes and watch people walking outside.
When Marie's mouth could move, she said, thickly, that she was grateful to the queen for the radiance of her attention, but oh no she could not be a nun, she was unworthy, and besides she had no godly vocation whatsoever in any way, at all.
And it was true, the religion she was raised in had always seemed vaguely foolish to her, if rich with mystery and ceremony, for why should babies be born into sin, why should she pray to the invisible forces, why would god be a trinity, why should she, who felt her greatness hot in her blood, be considered lesser because the first woman was molded from a rib and ate a fruit and thus lost lazy Eden? It was senseless. Her faith had twisted very early in her childhood; it would slowly grow ever more bent into its geometry until it was its own angular, majestic thing.
But at seventeen, in this spare chamber at the court in Westminster, she could be no equal to the elegant and story-loving queen, who, though small in body, absorbed all light, all though
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Autoren-Porträt von Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies and Matrix, and the short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won the Story Prize and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Groff s work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and she was named one of Granta s 2017 Best Young American Novelists.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lauren Groff
- 2021, Internationale Ausgabe, 272 Seiten, Maße: 15 x 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Riverhead Books
- ISBN-10: 0593421191
- ISBN-13: 9780593421192
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.08.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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Praise for Matrix:A radiant novel about the 12th-century poet and mystic Marie de France. . . Groff richly imagines Marie's decades of exile in a royal convent, which she eventually leads. A charged novel about female ambition. - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
Just when it seems there are nothing but chronicles of decline and ruin comes Lauren Groff s Matrix, about a self-sufficient abbey of 12th-century nuns a shining, all-female utopian community it is finally its spirit of celebration that gives this novel its many moments of beauty. -Wall Street Journal
"[T]hrilling and heartbreaking. Groff. . . crafts an electric work of historical fiction." -TIME
[A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her. - New York Times Book Review
Far more than a treat for history buffs. . . . [Groff] writes a creative, intelligent work that will last. Boston Globe
"Incandescent. . . a radiant work of imagination and accomplishment." -Esquire
In Lauren Groff s hands, the tale of a medieval nunnery is must-read fiction." -The Washington Post
Stunning . . .grand, mythic . . .feels both ancient and urgent, as holy as it is deeply human. - Entertainment Weekly
An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable. O, The Oprah Magazine
An inspiring novel that truly demonstrates the power women wield, regardless of the era. It has sisterhood, love, war, sex [Q]uite impossible to put down. - NPR
A relentless exhibition of Groff s freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel s Thomas Cromwell or Robert Caro s Robert Moses. USA Today
"The medieval nun drama you didn t know you needed." -Vulture
A bold new direction for the accomplished writer. - Vogue
[I]n an appealingly unpredictable move, Lauren Groff
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has turned her attentions to 12th-century English nuns. The result is a highly distinctive novel of great vigour and boldness ... we are carried on the force of her style, and held by the strength of an intelligence that lets comedy and emotional complexity work together ... an assertively modern novel about leadership, ambition and enterprise, and about the communal life of individuals. - The Guardian
"Transcendently beautiful It s surprisingly delicious to read fiction about a historical figure we know so little about. -Shondaland
A propulsive, enchanting, and emotionally charged read. -Washington Independent Review of Books
A mesmerizing study of faith, passion and violence. - Harper's Bazaar
Sumptuous, sublime . . engrossing. - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Expansive . . . . passionately feminist, funny and even a bit profane. - Good Housekeeping
This transportive and meditative tale that will swallow you up from the very start. - Newsweek
A premier stylist, [Groff] continues to grow .The voice she finds for Marie de France will hold readers fast. Los Angeles Times
Mesmerizing . . . . A bold, thrilling work that highlights the wild, wide range of Groff's imagination. Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Groff s . . . most daring work to date. . . . sumptuous but brisk storytelling mines the Dark Age abbey for veins of violence, humor, empowerment, and spirituality and forges something compelling, strange, and recognizable to modern eyes." Philadelphia Inquirer
An unforgettable vision. Tampa Bay Times
Both epic and intimate, this sweeping novel explores questions of female ambition, creativity and passion with electrifying prose and sparkling wit. A propulsive, captivating read. -Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half
An audacious piece of storytelling, full of passion, wisdom and magic. -Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests
A thrillingly vivid, adventurous story about women and power that will blow readers' minds. Left me gasping. -Emma Donoghue, author of Room
Luminous, divine, her masterpiece. -Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters
Matrix is alive with lust and glory. In the incandescent Marie de France visionary, cantankerous and uncowed by the constraints of her sex Groff paints a portrait of sisterhood that shines out of the past and into the lives of women today. -C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills is Gold
Groff has created a labyrinth of jewel-like moments . . . and transformed it into a novel that is perfect for right now. -BookPage, STARRED review
Splendid with rich description and period vocabulary, this courageous and spine-tingling novel shows an incredible range for Groff (Florida, 2018), and will envelop readers fully in Marie's world, interior and exterior, all senses lit up. It is both a complete departure and an easy-to-envision tale of faith, power, and temptation. - Booklist, STARRED review
"Set in early medieval Europe, this book paints a rousing portrait of an abbess seizing and holding power. . .Groff s trademarkworthy sentences bring vivid buoyancy to a magisterial story." - Kirkus, STARRED review
Transcendent prose and vividly described settings bring to life historic events, from the Crusades to the papal interdict of 1208. Groff has outdone herself with an accomplishment as radiant as Marie s visions. - Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
"Transcendently beautiful It s surprisingly delicious to read fiction about a historical figure we know so little about. -Shondaland
A propulsive, enchanting, and emotionally charged read. -Washington Independent Review of Books
A mesmerizing study of faith, passion and violence. - Harper's Bazaar
Sumptuous, sublime . . engrossing. - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Expansive . . . . passionately feminist, funny and even a bit profane. - Good Housekeeping
This transportive and meditative tale that will swallow you up from the very start. - Newsweek
A premier stylist, [Groff] continues to grow .The voice she finds for Marie de France will hold readers fast. Los Angeles Times
Mesmerizing . . . . A bold, thrilling work that highlights the wild, wide range of Groff's imagination. Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Groff s . . . most daring work to date. . . . sumptuous but brisk storytelling mines the Dark Age abbey for veins of violence, humor, empowerment, and spirituality and forges something compelling, strange, and recognizable to modern eyes." Philadelphia Inquirer
An unforgettable vision. Tampa Bay Times
Both epic and intimate, this sweeping novel explores questions of female ambition, creativity and passion with electrifying prose and sparkling wit. A propulsive, captivating read. -Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half
An audacious piece of storytelling, full of passion, wisdom and magic. -Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests
A thrillingly vivid, adventurous story about women and power that will blow readers' minds. Left me gasping. -Emma Donoghue, author of Room
Luminous, divine, her masterpiece. -Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters
Matrix is alive with lust and glory. In the incandescent Marie de France visionary, cantankerous and uncowed by the constraints of her sex Groff paints a portrait of sisterhood that shines out of the past and into the lives of women today. -C Pam Zhang, author of How Much of These Hills is Gold
Groff has created a labyrinth of jewel-like moments . . . and transformed it into a novel that is perfect for right now. -BookPage, STARRED review
Splendid with rich description and period vocabulary, this courageous and spine-tingling novel shows an incredible range for Groff (Florida, 2018), and will envelop readers fully in Marie's world, interior and exterior, all senses lit up. It is both a complete departure and an easy-to-envision tale of faith, power, and temptation. - Booklist, STARRED review
"Set in early medieval Europe, this book paints a rousing portrait of an abbess seizing and holding power. . .Groff s trademarkworthy sentences bring vivid buoyancy to a magisterial story." - Kirkus, STARRED review
Transcendent prose and vividly described settings bring to life historic events, from the Crusades to the papal interdict of 1208. Groff has outdone herself with an accomplishment as radiant as Marie s visions. - Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
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