The President and the Frog
A novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A "sublime and gripping novel ... about hope: that within the world's messy pain there is still room for transformation and healing" (Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe), from the acclaimed author of Cantoras.
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A "sublime and gripping novel ... about hope: that within the world's messy pain there is still room for transformation and healing" (Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe), from the acclaimed author of Cantoras.In the president s excruciating (and sometimes humorous) encounters with his strangely healing frog ... De Robertis daringly invites us to imagine a man s Promethean struggle to wrest control of his broken psyche under the most dire circumstances possible. The New York Times Book Review
At his modest home on the edge of town, the former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla who was jailed for inciting revolution before becoming the face of justice, human rights, and selflessness for his nation. Now, as he talks to the journalist, he wonders if he should reveal the strange secret of his imprisonment: while held in brutal solitary confinement, he survived, in part, by discussing revolution, the quest for dignity, and what it means to love a country, with the only creature who ever spoke back a loud-mouth frog.
As engrossing as it is innovative, vivid, moving, and full of wit and humor, The President and the Frog explores the resilience of the human spirit and what is possible when danger looms. Ferrying us between a grim jail cell and the president's lush gardens, the tale reaches beyond all borders and invites us to reimagine what it means to lead, to dare, and to dream.
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Once upon a time, in a near-forgotten country, on a certain mid-November afternoon, an old man sat at his kitchen table and listened for the world beyond. No cars, not yet, only a breeze rattling the windowpane and the song of a single stubborn thrush. The reporters would be here any moment, with their arms full of equipment and their heads full of questions, looking the way reporters usually did in the old man s house: amazed, disoriented, as if they d just landed in some unmapped corner of the planet. As if it were some miracle, him in a ramshackle home, as if and this was the part that tickled him most as if he were a normal man. It was strange, how stunned they were, no matter how thoroughly they d researched and prepared, no matter how much they already knew about the so-called Poorest President in the World, a man who d led his country while living in a place, well, like this, could it be true, this house right here, there must be some mistake, they d pulled up to the wrong gate, it couldn t have been these four walls that he chose over the Presidential Palace, how could anyone run a country from a humble farmhouse at the edge of town, more hut than house by the standards of some of the countries from which they d flown; why would anyone even attempt to lead from such a place, why for that matter would anyone donate more than half their salary to charity, especially as president. There had to be a reason other than what the public had heard so far. And so they often opened with questions about it, tinged with disbelief as well as an amusing kind of hubris, as if they really thought they were the first to ask, as if by asking they could dig up some truth so buried it had never seen the sun. A common first question was why? Why live the way you do?
There had been so many interviews throughout the presidency, and even now that it was over. He d thought it would abate once his term ended, but the requests had not let up. He d had to become
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more discerning, but still, he wouldn t stop. Not yet. Not until he had to. Because there was so much, always, left to do. He watched a few specks of dust dance in a slant of light, just above the cluttered kitchen counter. So much dust. He d wiped all the counters this morning not under all the jars and bottles and cups that congregated exuberantly there, but still, he d wiped around them, and he d swept the slightly uneven floorboards, yet here they were again, specks of dust, floating languidly as if time belonged to them.
An engine outside. He approached the front door. Yes, there they were, out at the gate. A van. Two of them this time, a man and a woman, from Germany, or was it Sweden, he couldn t remember now, his calendar was so full they d all started to bleed together and in any case a welcome to them all. These two seemed young, limber, they were busy disembarking and gathering equipment and hadn t yet seen him in the doorway. The spring air was lovely, the warmest so far, that kind of November sun that flirts with your skin, coy about the summer to come. A good day for an interview in the garden. He d suggest the garden, politely, but really that was the only place; usually, with two of them and the camera to set up on a stand, there wasn t enough space in the combined kitchen and attached living room, and anyway they were never satisfied by the interior light, no sweeping vistas here, ha, not even close, nothing like the majestic windows and fancy molding in the official Presidential Residence of his own country, or of countries he d visited as head of state, but despite that or, more accurately, for that very reason, he knew they d want to see the inside of his house and get their own footage, direct images of look, can you believe it, breaking news the way an old man live
An engine outside. He approached the front door. Yes, there they were, out at the gate. A van. Two of them this time, a man and a woman, from Germany, or was it Sweden, he couldn t remember now, his calendar was so full they d all started to bleed together and in any case a welcome to them all. These two seemed young, limber, they were busy disembarking and gathering equipment and hadn t yet seen him in the doorway. The spring air was lovely, the warmest so far, that kind of November sun that flirts with your skin, coy about the summer to come. A good day for an interview in the garden. He d suggest the garden, politely, but really that was the only place; usually, with two of them and the camera to set up on a stand, there wasn t enough space in the combined kitchen and attached living room, and anyway they were never satisfied by the interior light, no sweeping vistas here, ha, not even close, nothing like the majestic windows and fancy molding in the official Presidential Residence of his own country, or of countries he d visited as head of state, but despite that or, more accurately, for that very reason, he knew they d want to see the inside of his house and get their own footage, direct images of look, can you believe it, breaking news the way an old man live
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Autoren-Porträt von Carolina De Robertis
CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS is the author of five novels, including The President of the Frog, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, as well as Cantoras, winner of a Stonewall Book Award and a Reading Women Award, and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lambda Literary Award. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages and she has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Baldwin-Emerson Fellowship, Italy s Rhegium Julii Prize, and numerous other honors. An author of Uruguayan origins, she teaches at San Francisco State University, and lives in Oakland, California, with her wife and two children.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Carolina De Robertis
- 2021, 224 Seiten, Maße: 14,9 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: KNOPF
- ISBN-10: 0593318412
- ISBN-13: 9780593318416
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD FINALISTOne of BookRiot s 24 Must-Read New Books One of Book Slut s Most Anticipated Books One of The Millions Most Anticipated Books One of Jacobin Magazine s Best Beach Reads A Chicago Review of Books Must-Read Book One of Alta s 14 New Books for August One of Ms. Magazine's Reads for the Rest of Us
A moving, deeply felt novel, especially in the president s excruciating (and sometimes humorous) encounters with his strangely healing frog. De Robertis daringly invites us to imagine a man s Promethean struggle to wrest control of his broken psyche under the most dire circumstances possible.
Michael Greenberg, The New York Times Book Review
Exceptional . . . [The President and the Frog] is a hopeful, entertaining paean to language, justice and perseverance.
Kevin Canfield, San Francisco Chronicle
The President and the Frog is a story about stories, and how to remember the seeds we can be even in the bleakest times. There is such lucid tenderness in the book, but it is also wild, and funny. As we move through time, we return again and again to love, to growth, but through struggle, and madness, and yes, magnanimous conversations with a frog. This book and Carolina De Robertis s vision are a beautiful, shattered dance.
Tommy Orange, author of There There
Carolina De Robertis is a brilliant and luminous writer, and The President and the Frog is a joy to read. Playful and profound, unearthly yet deeply rooted, this sublime and gripping novel is above all about hope: that within the world's messy pain there is still room for transformation and healing.
Madeline Miller, author of Circe
Visionary, biting with humor and deeply moving, The President and the Frog storms the limits of time and memory, human power and humility. De Robertis is a master storyteller and these pages astonish with
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their originality and brilliance.
Patricia Engel, author of Infinite Country
"A work of stunning insight and beauty, The President and the Frog is a song of hope in despairing times, a meditation on freedom and survival, on the quiet exultations of the ordinary (think Neruda's Odes to Common Things). A luminous, opulent, and unforgettable novel."
Cristina García, author of Here in Berlin
This is the story of the poorest President in the world, and what strange and fantastic things took place when he was a guerrilla kept in captivity and in isolation down a hole. A novel about connection and loss, the miracle of storytelling as survival, The President and the Frog is unconventionally bold and utterly, utterly bright. A beautiful and entrancing meditation about marvel and what it means to live and grasp for life in despairing times.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Carolina De Robertis casts a bright light with all her work. I was delighted to open this book and very sad to close it. Her voice is what we need to bring us back to wholeness."
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels
De Robertis . . . has crafted a tale of resilience, of the power of the human spirit to survive a story set in a jail cell and rooted in the fantastic.
BookRiot, 24 Must-Read New Books of Spring and Summer 2021
Always surprising and unique, Carolina De Robertis has written a tale of hope and resilience found within the depths of despair by a Latin American president jailed in solitary confinement except for one thing: a frog.
Ms. Magazine, August 2021 Reads for the Rest of Us
Without ever naming him outright, The President and the Frog takes [José] Mujica s stranger-than-fiction life story and imbues it with a quirky, mystical grace . . . The President and the Frog reminds us that hope can be found anywhere, even in the most wretched conditions. And that is a shot in the arm we all could use.
Elena Britos, BookPage
In stunning, cleareyed prose, De Robertis writes beautifully about storytelling, justice, and hope amid brutality . . . A timeless and timely exploration of power, revolution, and survival.
Kirkus Reviews
A classically harrowing journey . . . The tale alternates between this retired public official looking back on his storied career under the gaze of an outsider, and full immersion in the subterranean, dark, and dirty Hole as this brave guerrilla relives torture and degradation. How does he survive? By talking with a frog . . . Readers will be inspired by De Robertis' timeless, lucidly told tale of a leader committed to his people.
Booklist
De Robertis meditates on the fight for democracy in her pleasing latest . . . The tale s simplicity belies considerable depth and resonance . . . In such a charged political moment, [The President and the Frog] lands as both a balm and a paean to national pride and unity.
Publishers Weekly
Patricia Engel, author of Infinite Country
"A work of stunning insight and beauty, The President and the Frog is a song of hope in despairing times, a meditation on freedom and survival, on the quiet exultations of the ordinary (think Neruda's Odes to Common Things). A luminous, opulent, and unforgettable novel."
Cristina García, author of Here in Berlin
This is the story of the poorest President in the world, and what strange and fantastic things took place when he was a guerrilla kept in captivity and in isolation down a hole. A novel about connection and loss, the miracle of storytelling as survival, The President and the Frog is unconventionally bold and utterly, utterly bright. A beautiful and entrancing meditation about marvel and what it means to live and grasp for life in despairing times.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Carolina De Robertis casts a bright light with all her work. I was delighted to open this book and very sad to close it. Her voice is what we need to bring us back to wholeness."
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels
De Robertis . . . has crafted a tale of resilience, of the power of the human spirit to survive a story set in a jail cell and rooted in the fantastic.
BookRiot, 24 Must-Read New Books of Spring and Summer 2021
Always surprising and unique, Carolina De Robertis has written a tale of hope and resilience found within the depths of despair by a Latin American president jailed in solitary confinement except for one thing: a frog.
Ms. Magazine, August 2021 Reads for the Rest of Us
Without ever naming him outright, The President and the Frog takes [José] Mujica s stranger-than-fiction life story and imbues it with a quirky, mystical grace . . . The President and the Frog reminds us that hope can be found anywhere, even in the most wretched conditions. And that is a shot in the arm we all could use.
Elena Britos, BookPage
In stunning, cleareyed prose, De Robertis writes beautifully about storytelling, justice, and hope amid brutality . . . A timeless and timely exploration of power, revolution, and survival.
Kirkus Reviews
A classically harrowing journey . . . The tale alternates between this retired public official looking back on his storied career under the gaze of an outsider, and full immersion in the subterranean, dark, and dirty Hole as this brave guerrilla relives torture and degradation. How does he survive? By talking with a frog . . . Readers will be inspired by De Robertis' timeless, lucidly told tale of a leader committed to his people.
Booklist
De Robertis meditates on the fight for democracy in her pleasing latest . . . The tale s simplicity belies considerable depth and resonance . . . In such a charged political moment, [The President and the Frog] lands as both a balm and a paean to national pride and unity.
Publishers Weekly
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