Andrew Solomon

From New York Times bestselling author Andrew Solomon comes a stunning, poignant, and affecting young adult edition of his award-winning masterpiece, Far From the Tree, which explores the impact of extreme differences between parents and children.The old adage says that the apple doesnt fall far from the tree, meaning that children usually resemble their parents. But what happens when the apples fall somewhere elsesometimes a couple of orchards away, sometimes on the other side of the world?In this young adult edition, Andrew Solomon profiles how families accommodate children who have a variety of differences: families of people who are deaf, who are dwarfs, who have Down syndrome, who have autism, who have schizophrenia, who have multiple severe disabilities, who are prodigies, who commit crimes, and more.Elegantly reported by a spectacularly original and compassionate thinker, Far From the Tree explores how people who love each other must struggle to accept each othera theme in every familys life. The New York Times calls the adult edition a wise and beautiful volume that will shake up your preconceptions and leave you in a better place.

WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR Like Primo Levi s The Periodic Table The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history as Andrew Solomon narrates brilliantly and terrifyingly his own agonising experience of depression Solomon also portrays the pain of others in different cultures and societies whose lives have been shattered by depression and uncovers the historical social biological chemical and medical implications of this crippling disease He takes us through the halls of mental hospitals where some of his subjects have been imprisoned for decades into the research labs to the burdened and afflicted poor rural and urban He talks to faith healers and voyages around the world in a quest for folk wisdom He analyses the medications of today as well as reviewing the politics of diagnosis and treatment and perhaps most significantly he looks at the vital role of will and love in the process of recovery ONE OF THE GUARDIAN S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY

* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * * WINNER of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Books for a Better Life Award * The New York Times Book Reviews 10 Best Books of the Year *This masterpiece by the National Book Awardwinning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children, but also find profound meaning in doing soa brave, beautiful book that will expand your humanity (People).Solomons startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human conditionthat difference is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or multiple severe disabilities; with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating, the experience of difference within families is universal, and Solomon documents triumphs of love over prejudice in every chapter.All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent should parents accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves. Drawing on ten years of research and interviews with more than three hundred families, Solomon mines the eloquence of ordinary people facing extreme challenges.Elegantly reported by a spectacularly original and compassionate thinker, Far from the Tree explores how people who love each other must struggle to accept each othera theme in every familys life.

First published in The New Yorker, Solomon tells the story of Peter Lanza, the father of Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary shooter. Read itits moving, brave and just profoundly human and sad....There arent any answers. And thats what makes this all so impossible, and Solomons journalism so essential (Salon.com).Both parents loved Adam. Neither parent imagined or wanted their childs horrific end. This is why what Peter Lanza did by sharing his story with Andrew Solomon is so important. Lanzas story fills important gaps in our understanding of how a beloved child became a killerand reminds us as a society that we have an obligation to help families and children before they find themselves on irreversible paths of violence (Time).

Thirteen years ago in Russia, Alexandra Jane Baker's father jumped out of a window after being accused of embezzlement. But Alex knows the truth - her father was murdered, and she will do anything to avenge his death. Now she is a world-renowned businesswoman, working on a very public oil deal in small Sokanan, New York. In private, she is pursuing her vendetta against Miki Petrov, the man she blames for her father's death. But the murder of Luka Kole, the man who spirited her away from both Russia and her father's enemies all those years ago, brings Detective Hank Bonner to her doorstep. Alex acts cold and controlled around Hank, but he knows there is more to her than meets the eye. As he gets closer and closer to Alex's secret, their shared personal sorrow turns to attraction and then love. Soon they are evading Russian strongmen, hatching plans with the CIA, and setting a life-threatening trap to ensnare Petrov with Alex as bait.

The debut novel, first published over twenty years ago, from the National Book Awardwinning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression and Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identitya luminous and moving evocation of the love between a son and his mother, sexuality, thestartling changes wrought by grief, loss, and self-discovery.Harry, an internationally celebrated young concert pianist, decides its time to travel to Paris to confront his glamorous and formidable mother about her dismay at his homosexuality. But before he can give voice to his hurt and anger, he discovers that she is terminally ill. In an attempt to escape his feelings of guilt and despair over the prospect of her death, he embarks on several intense affairsone with a longtime female friendthat force him to question his capacity for love, and finally to rediscover it. Part eulogy, part confession, and part soliloquy on forgiveness, A Stone Boat is a luminous evocation of the destructive and regenerative, all-encompassing love between a son and his mother, by Americas foremost chronicler of personal and familial resilience.

En esta obra de Andrew Solomon analiza el complejo fenómeno de la depresión, el estrés y la forma en que vivimos. También descubriremos por qué razón la fuerza de voluntad desempeña un papel decisivo en el proceso de recuperación y cómo, a pesar de que, en los últimos tiempos, en nuestra sociedad se ha extendido la idea de que la depresión es un enfermedad “moderna”, en realidad ha existido siempre aunque en el pasado haya adoptado formas diferentes.

Una crónica sobre el final de la Unión Soviética y la nueva Rusia que emergía en los años noventa.Rusia, 1991. Tras el período de glasnost (apertura) y perestroika (reestructuración) impulsado por el ultimo lider sovietico, Gorbachov, la Union Sovietica se disuelve. Andrew Solomon viajo a Rusia a principios de los años noventa para presenciar los enormes cambios que experimentaba el pais.Solomon analizo en este articulo la situacion de la sociedad rusa, radiografiando con agudeza a las nuevas generaciones: artistas avant-garde, hombres de negocios y banqueros, miembros de la mafia rusa, politicos con nuevas ideas... Su idea era retratar el pais en un momento en el que se encontraba inmerso en una profunda transformacion. El autor descubrio una sociedad divida entre el deseo de adoptar ideas occidentales (democracia, capitalismo) y el empeño por mantener los valores sovieticos. La desafiante decadencia de la joven Rusia ofrece un retrato revelador de los eventos que sacudieron Rusia a finales del siglo veinte.

El emotivo relato de Peter Lanza, padre del chico que perpetró el tiroteo masivo más mortífero en una escuela en la historia de Estados Unidos.Andrew Solomon narra la historia Adam Lanza, quien en 2012 asesino a su madre y a veinte personas -alumnos y profesorado- del instituto de Connecticut donde estudio, para despues suicidarse. Se han publicado numerosos libros y articulos sobre el suceso, pero Solomon se centra por primera vez en la figura del padre de Adam, Peter Lanza, que desde entonces ha tratado de sobreponerse a la tragedia. Lanza vive atormentado por la afliccion y remordimiento, e insiste en que no existen respuestas cuando trata de comprender los motivos que llevaron a su hijo Adam a cometer estos asesinatos.Solomon nos invita a reflexionar sobre una de las cuestiones de mayor controversia en Estados Unidos, pero lo extiende tambien a temas universales: la crianza de los hijos, el estigma de los trastornos psiquiatricos y la violencia inherente en nuestra sociedad.

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Tout parent se pose un jour cette question cruciale : comment accepter la différence de son enfant, et comment l’aider à vivre avec ? Pour y apporter des réponses, Andrew Solomon a mené plus de trois

WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHORLike Primo Levis The Periodic Table, The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, brilliantly and terrifyingly, his own agonising experience of depression. Solomon also portrays the pain of others, in different cultures and societies whose lives have been shattered by depression and uncovers the historical, social, biological, chemical and medical implications of this crippling disease. He takes us through the halls of mental hospitals where some of his subjects have been imprisoned for decades; into the research labs; to the burdened and afflicted poor, rural and urban. He talks to faith healers and voyages around the world in a quest for folk wisdom. He analyses the medications of today as well as reviewing the politics of diagnosis and treatment and, perhaps most significantly, he looks at the vital role of will and love in the process of recovery.**ONE OF THE GUARDIANS 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

Un clásico contemporáneo sobre las relaciones entre padres e hijos, una lección de vida.Lejos del árbol es un libro esencial sobre las relaciones entre padres e hijos y sus diferencias. A lo largo de diez años, Andrew Solomon, ganador del National Book Award por El demonio de la depresion, ha realizado un estudio con mas de trescientas familias que han aprendido a convivir con la sordera, el enanismo, el sindrome de Down, el autismo, la esquizofrenia, la discapacidad, los niños prodigio, hijos delincuentes, transexuales o hijos que son fruto de una violacion.Solomon sostiene que la normalidad no existe, que todos somos imperfectos y extraños y que es la diferencia lo que nos une. Afirma que todos tenemos discapacidades o traumas en mayor o menor grado, y reivindica la discapacidad no como enfermedad susceptible de curarse sino como rasgo de identidad. Su extraordinario trabajo de investigacion consigue desarticular este arraigado prejuicio social, un estigma que ha hecho y sigue haciendo mucho daño.Lejos del arbol no es un libro de parenting, no es un libro de psicologia ni de critica social. Es un libro necesario y hermoso que plantea un nuevo horizonte de comprension hacia nosotros mismos y hacia los demas.Reseñas: La cima de la no ficcion. Una lectura obligatoria para psicologos, maestros y padres en general. Una llamada a reconsiderar aquello que nos hace diferentes los unos de los otros.USA TodayUna obra maestra.The New York TimesUn libro bello y valiente que nos hace mas humanos.PeopleUno de los libros mas extraordinarios que he leido en los ultimos tiempos. Valiente, compasivo y asombrosamente humano. Solomon trata una de las preguntas clasicas: ¿cuanto hay de innato y cuanto de adquirido en cada uno de nosotros? A traves de sus historias, contadas con una delicadeza y una lucidez fuera de lo comun, aprendemos cuan diferentes somos y cuan dolorosamente parecidos. No podia dejar de leer. Siddhartha Mukherjee, ganador del Premio Pulitzer por El emperador de todos los malesQue los seres humanos somos fuertes para sobrellevar circunstancias extremas, que tenemos una capacidad notable para adaptarnos y que recurrimos al poder del amor para superar situaciones sobrecogedoras son verdades universales que cobran vida en estas historias recogidas por Solomon.New York Review of BooksSolomon cruza fronteras nacionales, etnicas y religiosas para hablar a los padres sobre sus hijos y, por el camino, aprende que es lo que nos hace humanos.NewsweekExtraordinario. Un pedazo de inteligencia concentrada.The ObserverUn libro que todo el mundo deberia leer. Quien lo haga se convertira en un padre -y un ser humano- mas imaginativo y comprensivo.The New York Times Book ReviewUna cuidadosa, sutil y sorprendente exploracion de las diferencias que le dan forma a la vida familiar.New YorkerUn estudio emotivo del amor paternal frente a la adversidad.Telegraph

El mejor libro sobre la depresión, ganador del National Book Award y finalista del Pulitzer.El demonio de la depresión, que aparece ahora en una versión aumentada y revisada, es una obra fundamental que obtuvo el National Book Award y fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer. Solomon explora el fenomeno de la depresion a partir de su propia lucha contra la enfermedad y de entrevistas con otros enfermos, medicos y cientificos, responsables politicos, investigadores farmacologicos y filosofos; asi revela la sutil complejidad y la intensa agonia que la definen.Este libro asume el reto de explicar la depresion y describe el amplio abanico de medicamentos disponibles, la eficacia de las terapias alternativas, y el impacto que la enfermedad tiene en distintos grupos sociales en todo el mundo y a lo largo de la historia. Solomon demuestra una sinceridad, una inteligencia y una erudicion extraordinarias a lo largo de este viaje al mas oscuro de los secretos familiares. Su contribucion a nuestra comprension de la enfermedad mental y tambien de la condicion humana es asombrosa.Reseñas: Un libro escrito con tanta elegancia como rigor, empatico e iluminador, erudito y util. Solomon se disculpa porque ningun libro puede abarcar el alcance del sufrimiento humano. Este se queda muy cerca. Christine Whitehouse, TimeUna meditacion acerca de la capacidad de sufrimiento humana, pero tambien de resistencia.New YorkerInteligente, empatico y repleto de conocimientos sobre el tema, Solomon ha construido una ventana iluminadora y sensata sobre la idea medica y la imagen de la depresion.Publishers Weekly

From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Awardand one of the most original thinkers of our timeAndrew Solomons magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays (Vanity Fair). Travel narrative and global cultures come alive in this extraordinary collection.Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomons writings about places undergoing seismic shiftspolitical upheaval, cultural transformation, and social change. From his stint on the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup whose failure ended the Soviet Union, his 2002 account of the rebirth of culture in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban, his insightful appraisal of a Myanmar seeped in contradictions as it slowly, fitfully pushes toward freedom, and many other stories of profound upheaval, this book provides a unique window onto the very idea of social change. With his signature brilliance and compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities are altered when governments alter.A journalist and essayist of remarkable perception and prescience, Solomon captures the essence of these cultures. Ranging across seven continents and twenty-five years, these meaty dispatchesare brilliant geopolitical travelogues that also comprise a very personal and reflective resume of the National Book Award winners globe-trotting adventures (Elle). Far and Away takes a magnificent journey into the heart of extraordinarily diverse experiences: You will not only know the world better after having seen it through Solomons eyes, you will also care about it more (Elizabeth Gilbert).