He pukapuka e hopu ana i te ngākau me te kōrero pakiwaitara e kore e warewaretia. He tino pai mō ngā kaipānui e maioha ana ki te toi o te reo.
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10:04: He Pukapuka Pūrākau
Ben Lerner, 2014
256 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Whiringa, 2014
He uaua ki te kī kei hea koe e tū ana i roto i tētahi mahi a Ben Lerner, inā koa ko tāna mea hou rawa atu—he pukapuka whakamiharo, he pukapuka whakahihiri hoki.
♦ Ko Lerner te kaikorero tangata tuatahi? (Te nuinga...tērā pea.)
♦ He mahi pakiwaitara tēnei? (Āe. Kāo... Āe.)
♦ Ka mate te kaikōrero/kaituhi/Ben Lerner? (Ko wai ka mōhio.)
♦ Kei raro i te wai te Tāone o Niu Ioka? (Āe, kāo hoki.)
♦ Kua mutu te ao? (Me te mea nei ka taea...me te mea rānei me mutu.)
♦ He aha te wā? (Ko tētahi o ngā pātai nui o te pukapuka.)
Ki te mea kei te whakaaro koe he aha te kaupapa o te pukapuka, ehara i te mea ko koe anake. Heoi, ko tōna kounga whakamiharo te mea e hanga ana 10:04 tino ātaahua—ā, ka kata, ka whakaaroaro, ka pōhēhē anō hoki.
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Te Tangata 100-Tau te Pakeke i Piki i te Matapihi, ā, Ngaro Ana
Jonas Jonasson, 2009 (Eng. transl., 2012)
400 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Akuhata, 2014
I roto i tēnei pukapuka whakakatakata, whakakatakata hoki, ka ngokingoki a Allan Karlsson i te matapihi o te Whare Kaumātua ka tau ki runga i te moenga pani. He hu rūma moe ōna, ā, kei te oma ia—kia kore ai e whakanuia tana huritau 100 tau.
E whai ana te pukapuka i a Allan, he haerenga tūpono i ia wā. Nā te waimarie me te mānukanuka, ka taea e ia te mawhiti i ōna kaiwhai, ā, ka tau ōna waewae ki runga—ahakoa, i tēnei wā, kua wehe atu ōna waewae i ngā hū rūma moe mō tētahi takirua hū... he hū nō tētahi o ngā tāne i patua e Allan (me te mea kua patua).
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11/22/63
Stephen King, 2011
880 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Oketopa, 2013
He roa, 880 whārangi—ka roa te kaituhi ki te pānui i tēnei pukapuka—arā, he pai kē atu kia tau noa ki te wāhi e hiahiatia ana. Ā, ki te kore he pukapuka whakahihiri tere e rapua ana e koe, e kore koe e pouri.
E mōhio ana ngā pā ki a King hei tohunga o te whakamataku. Engari i roto i 11/22/63 He maha ngā momo tuhinga e whakaatuhia ana e ia—te ao tūturu, te pakiwaitara hītori, te pakiwaitara aroha, te pakiwaitara whakahihiri, te rapunga whakaaro, me ngā pakiwaitara whakaaroaro (arā, te haere i te wā)—ā, ehara i te mea miharo, he pai ia ki ngā momo tuhinga katoa.
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Ko te kanga
Joyce Carol Oates, 2013
688 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Mei, 2013
I ngā tau kua pahure ake nei, kua tīmata taku āwangawanga ki a Joyce Carol Oates—me ōna kiripuaki me āna kaupapa e tata ana ki te whakarihariha. Nō reira, me te mataku anō hoki ka ako ahau i Ko te kanga.
Āe, anei anō āna kōrero whakarihariha, i tēnei wā kua whakatakotoria ki roto i te horopaki hītori, me te horopaki gothic, me te kōrero pakiwaitara-whakahihiri - ā, he tino mīharo katoa ēnei mea, ā, he uaua ki te waiho i te pukapuka.
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Te Tau o te Hiahia
Heni Ngā Mara
368 p.
Whiringa, 2012
He moe tāne tā Edith (āe, ko Edith Wharton!), ahakoa he uaua ki te kimi i ngā kupu "sex" me "Wharton" i roto i te rerenga kotahi. He uaua ki te whakaaro ki a ia—me te kauae e piri ana me ngā kākahu kaki teitei—he tangata moe tāne; ina hoki, kāore a Wharton i whakaaro ko ia anō tēnā. Heoi, ko tēnei tūhonotanga tonu te kaupapa matua o te kōrero pakiwaitara a Jennie Fields.
Kua mauheretia a Edith i roto i te marena kore aroha, ahakoa kāore e taea te ārai i te aroha ki tana tāne e pouri ana. He tangata atawhai a Teddy Wharton, ahakoa he tangata noa, e aroha nui ana ki tana wahine, engari kāore he moepuku i waenganui i a rāua. Nō te mea kua ngana a Edith ki te moe i tētahi wā i roto i te marena, ka mea atu ia ki a Teddy, "kāore rawa."
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Te wahine a Ahapa
Sena Jeter Naslund, 1999
668 p.
Hakihea 2006
Ka pau katoa tēnei pukapuka i ētahi tāngata; ko ētahi kua kī mai kāore e taea e rātou te whakaoti. He pono, he kaupapa nui tēnei: te kōrero anō i ngā Moby-Dick, te pakiwaitara nui o Amerika, mai i te tirohanga a te wahine.
He nui te pukapuka e arohaina ana e au—ahakoa ehara i te katoa. Ko te nuinga, e mihi ana ahau ki te mohio me te maia o te kaituhi ki te whakamātau i tētahi mahi pēnei, inā koa he kaituhi he kaha tōna mōhio ki te pūrākau me te momo tuhinga huatau.
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Kei konei ngā rewera katoaTe Hītori Huna o te raruraru pūtea
Beverly McLean rāua ko Joe Nocera, 2010
416 p.
Pipiri 2011
Ka tohu mai a McLean rāua ko Nocera i ētahi kōrero Ngā Rewera Katoa—ehara i te mea ki ētahi tāngata torutoru anake engari ki te tini o ngā kaihanga kaupapa here, ngā kaipakihi, me ngā momo pūtea puta noa i te whānuitanga.
E ai ki a rātou, kāore he tangata kino kotahi i whai kawenga mō te tukinga o te tau 2008. Engari, ko te tukinga i puta mai i tētahi hinganga whānui i whakatenatena—ā, i whakatenatenahia hoki e—te apo me te mangere.
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Arcadia
Lauren Groff, 2012
320 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
January, 2013
Kua hopukina e ngā tirohanga utopian tō tātou hinengaro tuhituhi i roto i ngā mano tau - mai i Ētene o te Paipera me tā Plato Republic nā roto i a Thomas More Utopia (nāna i tito te kupu mō tātou), me tā Nathaniel Hawthorne Te Aroha o Blithedale.
Nā Lauren Groff Arcadia koia te mea hou rawa atu i roto i taua rārangi roa, ā, ka taea te tū ngāwari i roto i ōna tūpuna rongonui. Kua tau te pukapuka nei ki roto i te rārangi maha o "Ngā Pukapuka Pai Rawa" mō te tau 2012—ā, he tika tonu.
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Te Toi Whakawhanawhana
Chad Harbach, 2011
528 p.
Hui-tanguru, 2012
Ki te tini o ngā kaiarotake, Te Toi Whakawhanawhana e tū ana i te taha o Bernard Malamud Te Natura hei tētahi o ngā kēmu pēihipora rongonui o ngā wā katoa.
Ngā hongere o Chad Harbach Malamud, he pono, engari ko Herman Melville tana tino puna whakaaro. Kei konei a Melville i ngā taha rerekē, ā, nui atu anō hoki i roto i te kaupapa Romantic pōuri o te ao he mea ngaro, he mea kāore e taea te whakamārama, he mea kāore e taea te whakaahua.
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Te Whetu
Kate Christensen, 2011
320 p.
Whiringa 2011
Kei waenganui o te uhi o tēnei pukapuka* tētahi tangata e eke pahikara ana, e karapotia ana e tētahi ara takoto kau. Mēnā ko Harry Quirk te toa o te pukapuka nei, he kupu whakarite mohio tēnei mō te āhuatanga uaua e pā ana ki a Harry.
He tangata a Harry e whatu ana, e piko ana i roto i ngā ara taha o Brooklyn, arā, i roto i te ao tonu. Kāore he rārangi tika ki te wāhi e haere ana ia: he ara piko, he ara piko. Kaua e manukanuka, kua tae atu a Harry ki tōna ūnga. Ko te harikoa o tēnei pukapuka ko Harry tonu me Brooklyn, New York—ōna ara taha me ōna awa, ōna ara hikoi me ōna pae inu... me ngā mea hanga rerekē e noho ana i reira katoa.
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Te Taraehara
Ian McEwan, 2002
480 p.
January 2007
I tapaina ia e ōna hoa Piritana ko "Ian Macabre" nā te maha o āna pukapuka whakamiharo engari whakamataku hoki.
Engari i tēnei wā, kua tuhia e Ian McEwan tētahi pukapuka ataahua, whakamīharo, e tango ana i ngā atarangi ātaahua o Jane Austen, inā koa ko tana ake. Northanger Abbey me tōna toa wahine rangatahi me tōna hinengaro hohe rawa e tau ai ia ki te raruraru nui.
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Nga ururua Ataahua
Jess Walter, 2012
352 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
August 2012
Ko te oranga i roto i tēnei pukapuka hou whakamiharo, e tū ana i Hollywood me Itari, he mea tito mai i ngā wā tino mārama—ngā wā ka taea te whakarerekē i ngā oranga.
Ko te uauatanga ko te mōhio ki aua wā, te pupuri i aua wā, me te whai tikanga. Koinei te mea tino pai a Jess Walters ki te whakaatu—te uaua o āna kiripuaki ki te tautuhi i te āhua ohorere o te ao.
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I mua i taku haerenga ki te moe
SJ Watson, 2011
363 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Hui-tanguru 2014
I ia ata ka ara ake a Christine Lucas ki tētahi tāne tauhou i roto i tōna moenga—kāore ia i te mōhio ko wai ia, me pēhea rānei ia i tae atu ai ki reira. He mea whakararuraru ake: he wahine rerekē e titiro mai ana ki a ia i te whakaata, he pakeke ake i te wahine i titiro whakamuri ki a ia i te pō o mua.
Ki a Christine, ka mukua e te moe o ia pō ngā maharatanga katoa o te rā o mua. I ia ata mō ngā tau 20 kua pahure ake nei—mai i te aituā tukinga me te oma—me ako anō ia i tōna ao mai i te tīmatanga: te tāne i tōna taha, te whare e noho nei ia, ngā kākahu e mau ana ia, me te mea nui rawa atu ko ia anō.
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Te noho tāmate: Te Rongoā me ngā Mea Hiranga i te Mutunga
Autul Gawande, 2014
304 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Whiringa, 2014
He tino hari te kite i te tangata pērā i a Atul Gawande, he rata, kua tuhi i tēnei pukapuka. I roto i ngā kupu mārama, kāore i te hangarau - me te nui o te aroha - ka whakamārama a Gawande i te korenga o tana mahi i a tātou i ō tātou rā whakamutunga. Ehara i te mea miharo, kua nui te aro o te motu ki tēnei pukapuka.
He mea whakamīharo, e kī mai ana a Gawande ki a tātou i tā tātou e mōhio kē ana: i mua i te tango i tō tātou manawa whakamutunga, e hiahia ana tātou ki te whakahaere i te wā e toe ana ki a tātou—e hiahia ana tātou ki te noho motuhake i aua rā, marama, tau rānei e toe ana. Heoi, e hiahia ana te motuhaketanga ki tētahi ratonga kounga e kore e tino whakaratohia e ngā whare tiaki kaumātua me ngā tākuta. Ka taea e tātou te mahi pai ake, e tohe ana ia. Ā, e anga ana ia ki te whakaatu ki a tātou me pēhea.
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Bel Canto
Ann Patchett, 2001
318 p.
Hui-tanguru 2007
In Bel Canto E whakamahi ana a Ann Patchett i tētahi tikanga kōrero tawhito e pā ana ki tētahi rōpū tauhou kua mauheretia i roto i tētahi taiao motuhake. Ahakoa te tawhito o tēnei tikanga—nō mua noa atu. ki Te Tekamerona o te rautau 14—he hou, he huatau, ā, i ētahi wā, he tino katakata te whakamahinga a Patchett.
E rima tekau mā whitu ngā tāne, me tētahi kaiwaiata opera wahine, nō ngā whenua rerekē me ngā reo rerekē, i puritia hei herehere i roto i tētahi whenua o Amerika Latina kāore i whakaingoatia e tētahi rōpū kaiwhakatuma. Ka whakanuia e Patchett te riri, arā, te puoro, ā, ka mātakitaki tātou i ngā mea ka tupu.
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Belle Cora
Phillip Margulies, 2014
592 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Pipiri, 2014
Kua hoatu e Margulies ki a Amerika tā mātou ake putanga o Nga Mollers MaoriKo tana toa wahine, ko Belle Cora, he wahine kairau, he wahine rangatira, he tino ataahua te tuhi, pērā i tōna tūpuna Ingarihi o te rautau 17. Pērā i a Moll, ka miharo—ka ohorere hoki—ngā kiripuaki me ngā kaipānui o Belle ki tōna ataahua, ki tōna mohio, me āna mahi tinihanga mutunga kore.
Ehara tēnei i te kōrero marino mō ngā tikanga o te wā Wikitōria, ehara hoki i te titiro whakamuri ki tētahi wā koura. Kua tangohia e Margulies ngā kōrero tuku iho o tētahi whenua taitamariki hei whakaatu i tōna pakari me tōna pirau. Ko waenganui o te rautau 1800 tēnei—i te wā e mata ana, e oneone ana hoki a Amerika—ā, e whakaata ana te kōrero a Belle Cora i aua wā.
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Te Poto Nui:I roto i te Mīhini o te Ao Whakamutunga
Mikaera Ruihi, 2010
320 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Pipiri 2011
He ruarua noa iho ngā tāngata i whiwhi moni nui i te hinganga o Wall Street—ā, mō te nuinga o tātou, he uaua ki te kī mēnā he toa rātou, he tangata kino rānei.
Ki a Michael Lewis, he hunga whakakeke rātou—he hunga mokemoke i whakakeke i te pūnaha. E ai ki a Lewis, i a ētahi e oma noa ana me te kahui, e whakarongo ana ki te tangi o ō rātou ake waewae, i mōhio ēnei tāngata kei te anga atu te kahui ki runga i te pari—he mea noa iho te wā. Ā, i kite rātou i te haere mai mō ngā tau.
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Te Hīkoi Roa a Billy Lynn i te Wā Hawhe
Ben Fountain, 2012
320 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Hakihea, 2012
He reo ā-waha, he reo mamae, ā, i ētahi wā he tino katakata, Te Hīkoi Roa a Billy Lynn i te Wā Hawhe kua whakanuia hei mea hou Tangohia te 22 or Tuhinga o muaHe whiringa toa anō hoki mō te Tohu Pukapuka ā-Motu o te tau 2012.Ko te toa—mai i te 3/2013!)
E whai ana te pūrākau i ngā hōia taitamariki e waru o Bravo Squad, e kitea ana ko rātou he toa ā-motu i muri i tā rātou whawhai toa ki Irāki—he mahi i hopukina e te kāmera e te kapa pūrongo a Fox. Ināianei kei te haereere rātou i te US ki te tautoko i te pakanga.
Pānuihia atu: Te Hīkoi Roa a Billy Lynn i te Wā Hawhe (Arotake)
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awa Black
SM Hulse, 2015
240 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Maehe, 2015
Nō reira, kāore he mea miharo kei te miharo te katoa: e tuhituhi ana tēnei kaituhi 30-tau te pakeke me te kaha me te pono o tētahi kaituhi pakeke ake, mātau rawa atu. awa Black he tino ataahua, i roto i te kupu kotahi: ā, kei roto he whakaaro nui kei tua atu i ngā tau taitamariki o SM Hulse.
He māmā noa iho te āhua o te kōrero: ka hoki mai tētahi āpiha whakatikatika reti ki Black River, Montana, ki te tanu i ngā pungarehu o tana wahine, me te tū atu ki tētahi tangata i whakamamae i a ia i te wā o te ngangau i roto i te whare herehere i ngā tau kua pahure. Kei te wātea te herehere mō te parōra inaianei.
Engari, pērā i ngā pakiwaitara pai katoa, ka karo a Hulse i te wehewehe ngāwari i waenga i te pai me te kino. Ko te rārangi, e whakaatu mai ana ia ki a tātou, kāore rawa i te ngāwari.
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Te Iwi Wheua
Keri Hulme, 1985
464 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Pipiri 2007
He pukapuka kaha, he pukapuka hopu ngākau tēnei, he koi ngā tuhi a ngā kiripuaki e kukume ana i ngā ngākau katoa. Engari me tāpiri atu e au tētahi whakakape: ehara i te pukapuka ngāwari, ehara hoki i te pukapuka mā te katoa.
He nui rawa te āhua o te roa o te kōrero a Hulme, me ana rerenga kōrero rerekē, me ana rotarota. Tērā anō hoki tētahi wāhanga tutu e tino whakararuraru ana ahakoa he mea nui ki te kaupapa.
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Te Pukapuka o ngā Kakara Ngaro
MJ Rose, 2012
384 p.
Pipiri, 2013
He kaikawe kōrero whakamiharo a MJ Rose, e whakakotahi ana i te hītori me te pūtaiao me te matatika, te mea ngaro, me te aroha—kātahi ka whakauru i aua mea katoa ki roto i tētahi anga whakahihiri. Te Pukapuka Ngaro o ngā Kakara, te tuawhā o ngā pukapuka whakawhānautanga a Rose, ā, kua tuhia ki roto i āna tuhinga matatau, kei roto katoa ngā huānga tika.
Ka tīmata te pukapuka i te tau 1789, i Ihipa, i reira ka kitea e te kaihanga kakara taitamariki a Giles L'Etoile he wāhanga ia o tētahi tīma Wīwī e whakapūwhera ana i tētahi urupā tawhito. I roto i a rātou, ka mau te tīma katoa ki tētahi kakara kaha e kore e taea e Giles te tautuhi.
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Te Tēpu a te Ngeru
Michael Ondaatje, 2011
288 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
January, 2012
He mea whakamiharo - he ataahua, he ngaro, he mea ngaro. Te Tēpu a te Ngeru e tūhura ana i te mana o ngā mahi o te tamarikitanga, ahakoa he mea poto noa, he mea whakapoauau hoki i ētahi wā, ki te hanga i te āhua o tātou pakeke.
Hei Michael Ondaatje (Ko te Pataki Pakeha) e tuhituhi ana, me te reo o tōna kiripuaki kua pakeke kē nei, "i kawe puku mai tō tātou tamarikitanga ki te heke mai, me te kore mōhio ki te mahi."
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Ataahua Billy
Alice McDermott, 1998
243 whārangi
Hui-tanguru 2009
He āhua motuhake a Billy. He tangata inu waipiro noa iho, he tangata noa iho, i whakapōrearea i ana hoa, i whakararuraru i tana marena, ā, i mate i te tiriti. Engari, i reira tonu tetahi mea motuhake.
Ko te tamahine a te hoa pai o Billy te kaituhi o tēnei whakaahua piripono, ehara i te mea ko Billy Lynch anake, engari ko te whānau nui o ngā whanaunga Airani-Amerika i karapoti i a ia, i aroha hoki ki a ia, inā koa ko tōna matua, ko Dennis. Mai i te tina tangihanga i muri i te nehunga o Billy, ka maumahara ngā mema o te whānau ki tā rātou i mōhio ai.
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Te Pakanga a ngā Tamariki
Ann Packer, 2015
448 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Pipiri, 2015
Ka tīmata te pukapuka hou ataahua a Ann Packer me te pūrākau mō te hanganga whānau—he rākau ōki ora nui i runga i te toru eka whenua i California. Ko taua rākau, he rite ki te wych elm i roto i te pukapuka a EM Forster. Howards Whakamutua, koinei te pūtake o te whānau Blair o āpōpō ki te tū tahi me tētahi ki tētahi.
I muri i te Pakanga o Korea, ka kopikopiko haere a Bill Blair, he tākuta taitamariki, i tētahi ara whenua. Ka kitea ia i roto i tētahi wāhi ngahere e tū ana tētahi "ōki rangatira e tiaki ana"—"te rākau tino ataahua rawa atu i kitea e ia." I te hinganga o Blair i raro i te mana o te rākau, ka whakatau ia ki te hoko i te whenua i reira tonu.
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Rere waro
Tawni O'Dell, 2004
384 p.
October 2010
Ko te whenua waro o te tonga-mā-uru o Pennsylvania te whenua o Tawni O'Dell, ā, ko tōna reo ko ngā tāne e noho ana i ngā pukepuke, e mahi ana i ngā maina. E whakamārama ana ia i ō rātou oranga pakari, uaua, ā, i ētahi wā he tutu: ngā mahi ka ngaro i te katinga o ngā maina, ngā oranga ka ngaro i te wā ka pahū, ka pahū rānei.
In Rere waro, e kiia ana e ngā kairīti he "tata ki te mahi toi rangatira," e tuhituhi ana a O'Dell mai i te tirohanga tāne. He atamai, he katakata, he mārama ōna reo tāne—ā, he pai ō rātou kiripuaki engari he whara, pērā i ngā puke kua pokaia i mahue iho i ngā kamupene keri. He aroha ki ahau tēnei kaituhi, ā, he aroha ki ahau āna kiripuaki.
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Te whakawhiti ki te Haumaru
Wallace Stegner, 1987
368 p.
March 2007
Pērā i ētahi atu kaituhi rongonui i kī he iti noa iho ā rātou tuhituhi (ngā mahi toi iti a Jane Austen i runga i te "iti o te rei" me te "pane mēra" a William Faulkner o te oneone taketake), e kī ana a Wallace Stegner mō Te whakawhiti ki te Haumarui "ngana ia ki te whakaputa i ngā oro iti rawa, kia whakaaroarohia hoki."
I angitu ia i ngā taha e rua, ā, i hangaia e ia tētahi whakaahua piripono, whakaaro nui o te whakahoahoa i waenganui i ngā tāne me ngā wāhine e rua kua mārenatia, mō te 35 tau te roa. He kōrero whai mana.
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Te Oho Mate: te Te Whakawhitinga Whakamutunga o Lusitania
Erik Larson, 2015
448 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
April, 2015
Whai muri i tana hiahia ki te tuhituhi mō ngā kaupapa nui o te hītori—me te whakanoho i ngā ao rerekē e rua ki te taha—ka aro atu a Erik Larson ki te totohu o te Lusitania. I ohorere te ao i te torpedo o te kaipuke e te u-boat Tiamana, ā, i mutu ake, i te mutunga, ka uru atu a Amerika ki te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao.
I roto i ngā ringa o tētahi kaituhi pūkenga pērā i a Larson, ka huri te matenga o te Lusitaia hei kaupapa nui whakaharahara. Nā tōna kaha ki te whakaahua i te kaipuke whakahīhī, tōna roto whakahīhī, me te āhua rangatira o ana kaimahi me ana pāhihi, ka arohia te nui o te mate.
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Te Tarutaru Maroke o Ākuhata
Anna Jean Mayhew, 2011
352 p.
August 2011
Kei te whakaritea kētia tēnei pukapuka hou ki Ko te Āwhina, Te Oranga O Te Ora a tae noa Ki te patu i te Mockingbird—he mea tika ngā whakataurite.
Kua homai e Mayhew tētahi kōrero kaha mō te ngaronga o te harakore i te aroaro o te hē ā-iwi—he kōrero e puta mai ana ki a tātou mā te reo o Jubie Watts, 13 tau te pakeke, he kōtiro nō Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Whakatupato Moata (Te Toru o te Rau Tau Whakamutunga, 2)
Hēni Smiley, 2015
496 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Pipiri, 2015
Ko te nuinga o te mana o Jane Smiley hei kaituhi kei roto i tōna kaha whakamiharo ki te whakanoho i ngā kaipānui ki waenganui i te porowhita o ngā kiripuaki, me te mea kia piripono tātou. Ko tāna pukapuka hou e whakaatu ana i taua pūkenga, e whakauru ana i a tātou ki ngā kōrero iti o te oranga o āna kiripuaki—i te wā tonu e kawe ana i a tātou i roto i te whānuitanga nui o te hītori o te rautau 20.
I tēnei wāhanga tuarua o tana pukapuka e toru o "Last Hundred Years", ka haere tonu a Smiley i te ara o ngā Langdon—he whānau pāmu o Iowa—e whai ana i muri i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao. Pērā i te pukapuka tuatahi He waimarie (2014), kotahi te tau e hipokina ana e ia upoko, mai i te tau 1953 ki te tau 1986.
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Te Emepara o te Kakara: He Kōrero Pono mō te Hinu Kakara me te Āwangawanga Nui
me te Te Mea Ngaro Whakamutunga o ngā Māramatanga
Chandler Burr, 2003
352 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Pipiri, 2013
Nā Chandler Burr tēnei mahi kore-pūrākau, he tirotiro pūtaiao mō te kakara tangata, i hanga hei pukapuka pakiwaitara. Ahakoa ngā tūtohi, ngā kauwhata—me ngā wānanga roa mō ngā isotopes—kua tuhia e ia tētahi kōrero whakahihiri, tino tangata.
Ko Lucca Turin te toa o tana kōrero, he tohunga koiora mohio, he karismatika, he tangata whawhai hoki, kua werohia e ia te whakaaro pūtaiao mō te mahi a ō tātou ihu. I runga i tō tātou mōhiotanga ki te koiora, e ai ki a Turin, me kore e taea te hongi tangata: "kāore rawa e taea e tātou te hongi i te hongi." Ko taua mea ngaro te kaupapa o tēnei pukapuka.
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Ngā Tamariki a te Emepara
Claire Messud, 2006
528 p.
Mahuru 2011
Kāore te taitara o te pukapuka a Claire Messud i te tino mārama—whakaarohia "ngā kākahu" kaua ko "ngā tamariki." Kāore ngā mea o te ao o Messud i rite ki tō rātou āhua; he whānui te āputa i waenga i te tirohanga me te mooni, ngā mea e kīia ana e te tangata e whakaponohia ana e rātou me ngā mea e mahia ana e rātou i roto i ō rātou ao.
I a ia e aro nui ana ki ngā pūkenga pānui kanapa o Niu Ioka, kua tito a Messud i tētahi pukuhohe whakahirahira e pā ana ki ngā tikanga pai, i te momo tuhituhi a Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, me Tom Wolff. Ngā Tamariki a te Emepara He pai rawa atu tēnā. Ko te ataahua o tana pukapuka ko te whai i ngā momo kōrero me ngā kiripuaki i a ia e anga whakamua ana ki te mutunga.
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Emepaea Falls
Richard Russo, 2001
496 p.
Whiringa 2007
Te āhua nei kāore he mutunga o taku whakamahi i ngā kupu whakanui ina tae mai ki te whakaahua i a Richard Russo hei kaituhi: he mārama, he katakata, he atawhai tangata, he ngākau nui, he koi.... He mea whakama ki te nui o ngā kupu āhua.
Ko tāku e ngana ana ki te kī ko tēnei anake: Emepaea Falls He pukapuka pai a *It's a book*—he pukapuka whakamiharo. He kōrero mō ngā moemoeā kua āraia, he tika ake rānei, mō te hunga e mataku ana ki te moemoeā.
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Te Wāhi Pono
Tana French, 2010
435 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Hui-tanguru, 2013
I te rua tekau o ōna tau, i wehe atu a James Joyce i Airana, ā, kāore i noho anō ki reira. Heoi, kāore a Airana i wehe atu i a Joyce. Ko tētahi o ana kaupapa pumau ko te mauheretanga o te ao tawhito i a tātou, inā koa ko te iwi Airana—me pēhea rātou i whakatārewatia ai ki te āhua pararutiki, kāore e taea te neke whakamua.
Ko Tana French o Ireland anō te kaituhi mō te take kotahi—i te wā tonu e whakaaro ana rātou kei te haumaru rātou, ka hoki anō ngā kiripuaki o ana pukapuka katoa ki ngā mahi pōuri o tō rātou taitamarikitanga.
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Freedom
Nā Hōnetana Franzen, 2011
608 p.
Whiringa 2011
I tīmata pai a Franzen i tana whakahē i a Oprah tekau tau ki muri. Nāna i whiriwhiri tana pukapuka, Whakatikatika, e ai ki te pānui a tētahi karapu pukapuka, engari ko te whakautu a Franzen "āue, āue. Ki te pai a Oprah ki tēnei mea, e kore ngā tāne e pā atu." Nō reira ka mea a Oprah, "wareware noa, e tama." Ka huri te mea katoa hei hū nui—ā, ka kohia he Whakatikatika He nui ngā pānuitanga kore utu. He tangata waimarie.
Murua, warewaretia, ki taku whakaaro, nā te mea i tahuri tonu a Oprah ka whiriwhiri Freedom hei kōwhiringa anō. I tēnei wā, i puta a Franzen ki te whakaaturanga a Oprah, ā, i whakaae ia ki tana whakaaetanga. He waimarie anō.
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He Kūaha i te Arawhata
Lorrie Moore, 2009
336 p.
January 2010
He "mātanga" a Lorrie Moore, he "katakata" a Lily-Tomlin, ā, ko "te kaituhi Amerikana o nāianei tino kaha ki te whakahē" (nō Ko Honatana Letema, kāore ia e piko noa iho).
He Kūaha i te Arawhata, te pukapuka tuatahi a Moore i roto i ngā tau 11, kua whakanuia whānuitia mō tana whakaahua ataahua o tētahi wahine taitamariki e nekeneke haere ana i roto i te ao pakeke. Ko tana toa wahine, ko Tassie Keltjin, he ākonga i tētahi kāreti toi reo-rahi i Wisconsin, e whakahē ana i te tangohia te kōtiro ki waho o te whenua, engari kaua ki waho o te whenua...he kōrero tawhito.
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Ngā Kōtiro o te Tāone Atomic: Te Kōrero Kāore i Whakapuakina mō ngā Wahine i Āwhina i te Toa o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao
Denise Kiernan, 2013
416 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
kia 2014
Ko te paru me te huna ngā mea tino nui e rua o tēnei hītori whakahihiri o ngā wāhine i huihui mai ki Oak Ridge, Tennessee, i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao. E mano tini o rātou i haere mai—mō ngā mahi utu pai, mō te haerenga mōrearea, mō te whai i ngā tāne rānei. Kāore rātou i te mōhio he aha tā rātou e mahi ai—me te aha rānei tā rātou e mahi ana ina tae mai rātou ki konei. (Kei te whakarei ake rātou i te uranium.)
I hikoi waewae kore rātou i roto i te paru (he maha ngā wā ka tae ki te turi), i mahi kaha, i noho pōuri, i kati hoki ō rātou waha. Nā ā rātou mahi, he mea kāore i te tino mōhiotia, i āwhina i te mutunga o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao... ā, koia hoki te patu tino whakamate o te ao.
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Ko te Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, 2013
784 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
January 2014
I ētahi wā, ka tae mai tētahi pukapuka pēnei—kua roa e tumanakohia ana—ki ngā tumanakohanga teitei rawa, ā, ka kore e taea te whakapōrearea. Kāore i te pērā. Ko te GoldfinchE ai ki te nuinga o te iwi, ko te pukapuka tuatoru a Tartt kei te tihi o (tērā pea kei te tata) o ngā "Best of 2013" katoa. He mea whakamiharo.
Tekau mā toru tau te pakeke o Theo Decker i te wā i ru ai tōna ao i te pahūtanga i roto i tētahi whare taonga o Niu Ioka. I mate tōna whaea i te pahūtanga, engari i ora a Theo, e ngokingoki ana i roto i ngā ururua me tētahi peita Tatimana utu nui i roto i tana peke tuara. Koinei te Goldfinch o te taitara, ā, mō Leo ka waiho hei taonga mō ngā mea katoa i ngaro i a ia me ngā mea katoa e hiahia ana ia.
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Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, 2012
432 p.
Hui-tanguru 2013
I tino angitu a Gillian Flynn i tana pukapuka tuatoru, he pukapuka whakamataku engari he tino mohio, ā, i eke ki te tihi o ngā rārangi hokohoko pai rawa atu i tōna taenga mai ki ngā whata. I tēnei wā tonu e tuhia ana tēnei. Gone Girl kei te tihi tonu, kei te tata rānei ki te tihi o ia rārangi—ā, he take pai hoki. He pakiwaitara, he pakiwaitara hinengaro hoki, ka whakanuia e Flynn te whakahihiri tae noa ki te whārangi whakamutunga.
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Haurua o te Ra Ra kowhai
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2006
528 p.
Hakihea 2008
He pukapuka tino pai tēnei—he pukapuka tino pai rawa atu, te momo e miharo ai koe ki te mana whakamiharo o te tuhituhi.
Kua hurihia e Adichie tētahi huihuinga pōuri o te ao—te wehenga mai o Biafra (1967-70) i Nigeria—hei whakaari tangata whai kiko, matatini hoki, e tino aro nui ai ngā kaipānui ki ngā kiripuaki me ō rātou mutunga iho.
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Hārieta Tubman: Te huarahi ki te herekoretanga
Catherine Clinton, 2004
304 p.
Hui-tanguru 2010
He toa mahi a Harriet Tubman: mēnā ka hangaia e James Cameron he kiriata mō tōna oranga, kāore he mea—kāore he mea!—e hiahiatia ana hei whakapai ake i te tuhinga.
E mōhio ana te nuinga o tātou ki ngā mahi a Tubman ki te tuku i ngā pononga kia wātea. Engari ko te tokomaha i whakaorangia e ia, ngā uauatanga i pā ki a ia, ngā mōrearea ki tōna ora, te rongonui i riro i a ia... ā, he maha atu anō hoki ngā mea e tino miharo ai tēnei pukapuka mō tōna oranga.
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Hotera du Lac
Anita Brookner, 1984
184 p.
August 2007
Ko tētahi o ngā mahi tuatahi a Brookner, ā, e whakaaro ana ētahi ko ia te mea pai rawa atu, kei roto i tēnei pukapuka angiangi ētahi tuhinga tino ataahua, tino rorirori hoki.
Ko Edith Hope, he kaituhi pukapuka aroha, e tuhituhi ana "i raro i tētahi ingoa kaha ake" (Āe, he tino pai tēnā!), kua peia atu ia ki tētahi hōtēra papai engari marino o Huiterangi. Kua hara nui ia i te taha pāpori, ahakoa kāore tātou e mōhio he aha te mea i mahia e ia tae noa ki te toru hauwhā o te mahi.
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Te Whare o nga Wairua
Isabel Allende, 1985
433 p.
Hui-tanguru 2008
Nō te mea kua pānui anō ahau i tēnei pukapuka whakamiharo i muri i ngā tau 18, kua wareware ahau ki te nui o taku pai ki a ia. E toru ngā whakatipuranga wāhine e noho ana i roto i te pūrākau me te "whare o ngā wairua" e kīia nei ko te ingoa kotahi—he tino whakamīharo, he ātaahua hoki ō rātou kiripuaki.
Ka tīmata te kōrero i te matenga o Rosa, he wahine ataahua, he makawe kakariki, ko ia anake te wahine i roto i te pukapuka e pā ana tōna ingoa ki tētahi tae. Ka moe tōna tuahine, a Clara (mārama) i te taumau a Rosa, a Esteban Trueba—nā reira ka tīmata te rārangi o ngā wāhine he mā ō rātou ingoa, arā, ko Blanca rāua ko Alba.
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Te Tino tangata
Piripi Roth, 2000
384 p.
August 2008
I te whārangi 4, ka pātai te toa o te pukapuka a Roth, he ahorangi pukapuka tawhito, ki āna ākonga:
E mōhio ana koe ki te tīmatanga o ngā tuhinga Pākehā?... Me te tautohetohe. Ko ngā tuhinga Pākehā katoa e puta mai ana i te pakanga.... A Agamemnon, te Kīngi o ngā tāngata, me Achiles nui. Ā, he aha tā rāua e tautohetohe nei mō ēnei wairua tutu, kaha e rua? He rite tonu ki te pakanga i roto i te whare inu. Kei te tautohetohe rāua mō tētahi wahine.
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Te Ora Matekore a Henrietta Kei te Kore
Rebecca Skloot, 2010
369 p.
Hui-tanguru 2011
Te ora tahuti ore pono koinei tētahi o ngā kōrero tino whakamiharo o ngā wā katoa, e whakakotahi ana i te mamae tangata o te whānau o tētahi wahine me te hītori o te whanaketanga pūtaiao me te hauora.
I te tau 1951 ka mate tētahi wahine ataahua, taitamariki, i tētahi momo mate pukupuku waha kōpū kino. I a ia e rongoatia ana i te Hōhipera o Johns Hopkins, ka tangohia te kiko o Henrietta Lacks me te kore e mōhiotia e ia... ā, ka whakamahia i roto i tētahi taiwhanga ahurea pūtau. He tino mīharo āna pūtau—he rerekē i ngā ahurea pūtau katoa, ka wehea tonutia. Kāore anō kia kitea he rite ki a rātou i mua.
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Ngā Kaitautoko i te Tino Pai
Tom Rachman, 2010
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Whiringa 2010
Ko "The Imperfectionists" te taitara tino tika mō te pukapuka tata tino pai a Tom Rachman. He mātau, he pūkenga, he katakata, he atawhai i ētahi wā āna kiripuaki, engari he hapa tonu - arā, he koretake. He tino tangata rātou.
Ka whakaatuhia mai e Rachman tētahi rōpū kaiwhakaari, he rōpū tāngata e mahi tahi ana ki te whakaputa i tētahi nūpepa o te ao kei Rōma. Ka whiwhi ia kiripuaki i tana ake upoko engari ka puta anō i roto i ētahi atu—e kore ai te pukapuka e rite ki tētahi pukapuka pakiwaitara engari he raupapa pakiwaitara poto e hono tahi ana.
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Ko nga Innocents
Francesca Segal
288 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Whiringa 2012
Te whakahoutanga atamai a Francesca Segal Te tau o te harakore he tino tika te reo—mai i te kupu taurite o ngā taitara ki te titiro whakatoi e aro ana ki te noho tahi a te hapori. He ōrite ngā ingoa o ngā kiripuaki—ko Adam Newman mō Newland Archer, me Ellie mō Ellen.
Heoi, he mārama ake te whakatau a Segal mō te hapori i tā Edith Wharton. Ko nga InnocentsKo te noho pūmau o ngā Hūrai i te raki o Rānana i te rautau 21 he tino pai ake, ahakoa kei te pōuri tonu, i te taha whakarunga o Manhattan i te mutunga o te rautau 19. Ā, ko te āhua o te noho tahi a Adam Newman me te kore e rite ki tana i whakaaro ai, engari he rite tonu ki te mea i whakatakotoria mai i waho.
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Ngā Mea Huna o te Kīhini: Ngā Mahi Mōrearea i te Kopu Kai
Anthony Bourdain, 2000
312 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Mahuru, 2014
He tino kino a Bourdain. E 30 tau pea ia ki muri; ināianei kua huri ia hei tangata rongonui o te ao tunu kai, he maha āna pukapuka me āna raupapa pouaka whakaata. Ā, he uaua ki te whakapono ki tēnā. Kihini Matatapu e tata ana ki te 15 tau.
He pukapuka whakamiharo! He kōrero pakiwaitara, he whaiaro nui, he whakakatakata tonu, ā, i ētahi wā he ohorere, he whai hua mō ngā tunu kai ngaio me te hunga kai. He tohutohu whakatūpato mō ngā tunu kai e tīmata ana? "Tae mai i te wā tika." Mō ngā kai? "Atawhai i ngā Hua Manu Benedict" (ki te whakaarohia, kaua rawa e kai parakuihi Rātapu).
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Te Kite Whakawhiti
Khaled Hosseini, 2003
400 p.
Hōngongoi 2007
He pukapuka rongonui tēnei e te hunga pānui, he tokomaha e kī ana koinei tētahi o ā rātou pukapuka tino pai. Ā, he take pai tēnei.
E whai ana te pūrākau i te āhua pōuri o ngā tama tāne Afghan e rua. I whakatipuria ake rāua kāore he whaea, ā, i whāngaihia rāua ki te ū o te wahine kairau kotahi, ka hanga he hononga whakawhanaungatanga e mau tonu ana mō te oranga katoa. Kāore rawa.
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Life o Pi
Yann Martel, 2001
348 p.
kia 2007
He aha tāu e mahi ai ki tētahi taika Bengal e 450-pauna te taumaha?
He rite tonu ki te katakata tawhito a te korira 800-pauna, ā, he rite tonu te whakautu—hoatu ki tāna e hiahia ai, inā koa mēnā kei te taha kōrua i tētahi poti whakaora i waenganui o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa.
Ko Piscene Patel te tama a tētahi kaitiaki kararehe i Pondicherry, Īnia...
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Te Rewera Iti i te Tāone o te Māramatanga: He Kōrero Pono mō te Kohuru i Belle Epoque Paris
Steven Levingston, 2014
352 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
April, 2015
Me i he pukapuka taihara tēnei pukapuka whakamiharo, he ngāwari noa iho te whakakore atu he mea kāore pea i te tupu, he mea whakawhirinaki rawa rānei ki te tūponotanga. Engari Rewera iti He kōrero pono, ā, me tino miharo ngā kaipānui ki te āhua rerekē o te whanaketanga o te ao tūroa.
Hei tukanga pirihimana pakari—ā, he tukanga e puta ai te koretake o ngā kaitirotiro i te wā e huna ana i te mōhio—Rewera iti i mau ahau ki te aroha. Ko tētahi atu painga ko tōna whakaahua ataahua o Belle Epoque Paris.
Pānuihia atu: Te Rewera Iti i te Tāone o te Māramatanga (Arotake)