Sue Monk Kidd

Su primera novela, La vida secreta de las abejas, estuvo más de cien semanas en la lista de bestsellers del New York Times y ha vendido más de cuatro millones de copias. Su segunda obra de ficción, El secreto de la sirena, ha sido numero uno en la lista de bestsellers del New York Times. Sue analiza, a traves de su propia experiencia, conceptos como la soledad, la trascendencia de lo cotidiano, el valor del silencio o el amor. Tal como ella afirma, toda teologia personal, y este libro es la suya, deberia comenzar con las palabras dejame que te cuente una historia....

Eine Frau zwischen Vernunft und Leidenschaft Eine Insel vor South Carolina: Jessie Sullivan kehrt hierher zurück, weil ihre Mutter Hilfe braucht. Sie hat sich, vermutlich in religiösem Wahn, selbst Leid zugefügt und leidet offensichtlich unter der Last eines schrecklichen Geheimnisses. Jessie, die seit Jahren nicht mehr auf der Insel war, pflegt ihre Mutter, versucht dem Geheimnis auf die Spur zu kommen und unternimmt lange einsame Wanderungen. Sie lässt sich einfangen von der Magie der Insel mit dem alten Kloster und der rauen Landschaft. Sie beginnt wieder zu malen und fügt sich ein in die Gemeinschaft der Inselfrauen. Da begegnet sie einem Mann, der ihr Leben von einer Minute auf die andere auf den Kopf stellen wird: dem Mönch Pater Thomas, der kurz davor steht, sein ewiges Gelübde abzulegen. Die beiden stürzen sich in eine leidenschaftliche Liebesbeziehung. Jessie will ihre langjährige Ehe nicht gefährden, und fragt sich immer wieder, ob sie das Recht hat, Pater Thomas von sei15nem vorgezeichneten Weg abzubringen. Doch die Sehnsucht nach einem Seelenverwandten, nach Sinnlichkeit und Spiritualität droht über die Vernunft zu siegen. Irgendwann braucht ihre Mutter sie nicht mehr, das Geheimnis ist gelöst. Jessie muss jetzt eine folgenschwere Entscheidung treffen ...12Es ist hart, dieses Buch aus der Hand legen zu müssen für so profane Dinge wie Essen und Schlafen. Elle01Sue Monk Kidd hat sich in den USA bereits mit dem Schreiben von Biografien einen Namen gemacht ('Die Bienenhüterin' war in England für den renommierten Orange Prize nominiert), zwei ihrer Erzählungen wurden in die "Best American Short Stories" aufgenommen. Die Autorin lebt mit ihrer Familie in South Carolina.

Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for. When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act. Fugitives from justice and from Lily's harsh and unyielding father, they follow a trail left by the woman who died ten years before. Finding sanctuary in the home of three beekeeping sisters, Lily starts a journey as much about her understanding of the world, as about the mystery surrounding her mother.

SUE MONK KIDD is the author of two memoirs, "The Dance of the Dissident Daughter" and "When the Heart Waits". She received a Poets and Writers Award for the story that inspired novel "The Secret Life of Bees". Her fiction has appeared in several literary journals and two of her stories-including an excerpt from "The Secret Life of Bees"-were selected as notable stories in "Best American Short Stories". She currently lives in South Carolina.

Una cautivadora novela que trae a la memoria tomates verdes fritos, llevada al cine con un elenco espectacular.Carolina del Sur, 1964, en plena lucha por los derechos civiles. Una adolescente y su amiga negra deciden escapar del duro porvenir que les espera en su ciudad, y a la vez buscar respuestas sobre lo ocurrido a la madre de una de ellas, fallecida en extrañas circunstancias. Por el camino se encontraran con tres hermanas afroamericanas que se dedican a la apicultura y que las acogeran en su casa... Una novela emocionante y evocadora.

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women.Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.Hetty Handful Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimkes daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller.THE INVENTION OF WINGS by Sue Monk Kidd was selected as an Oprah Book Club 2.0 pick on December 10, 2013.From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarahs eleventh birthday, Hetty Handful Grimke is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender ribbons, and presented to Sarah as a gift. Sarah knows what she does next will unleash a world of trouble. She also knows that she cannot accept. And so, indeed, the trouble begins ...A powerful, sweeping novel, inspired by real events, and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century, THE INVENTION OF WINGS evokes a world of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of righteous people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognise; and celebrates the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds.

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller.THE INVENTION OF WINGS by Sue Monk Kidd was selected as an Oprah Book Club 2.0 pick on December 10, 2013.From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarah''s eleventh birthday, Hetty ''Handful'' Grimke is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender ribbons, and presented to Sarah as a gift. Sarah knows what she does next will unleash a world of trouble. She also knows that she cannot accept. And so, indeed, the trouble begins ...A powerful, sweeping novel, inspired by real events, and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century, THE INVENTION OF WINGS evokes a world of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of righteous people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognise; and celebrates the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds.

In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic. --Regina Marler

Caroline du Sud, été 1964. Lily, quatorze ans, grandit entre un père intransigeant et Rosaleen, sa nourrice noire, qui l’élève depuis la mort de sa mère. Lorsque, au cours d’émeutes raciales, Rosalee

En un monasterio se conserva una misteriosa silla con sirenas esculpidas, dedicada a una santa que, según la leyenda, había sido una sirena antes de su conversión. Cuando Jessie acude a la isla, lleva una vida convencional junto a su marido Hugh. Sin embargo, Jessie se enamora del hermano Thomas, un monje que esta a punto de hacer los votos definitivos... y se debate entonces entre negar o aceptar ese perverso deseo...

Kidd''s stunning debut, "The Secret Life of Bees," spent 77 weeks on "The New York Times" bestseller list. Now, in her much-anticipated new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans and cement her reputation as one of the most remarkable writers at work today. Sue Monk Kiddas stunning debut, "The Secret Life of Bees," has transformed her into a genuine literary star. Now, in her much-anticipated new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans and cement her reputation as one of the most remarkable writers at work today. Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivanas conventional life has been amolded to the smallest space possible.a So when she is called home to cope with her motheras startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Islanda amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeksashe becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her motheras tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right. What inspires the yearning for a soul mate? Few writers have explored, as Kidd does, the lush, unknown region of the feminine soul where the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic exists. "The Mermaid Chair" is a vividly imagined novel about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body; one that illuminates a womanas self-awakening with the brilliance and power that only a writer of Kiddas ability could conjure.

La historia transcurre en el sur de Estados Unidos en 1964, año de la lucha por los Derechos Civiles. Aislada en una finca con un padre frío que no la cuida, Lily Owens, muchacha de catorce años, ha pasado gran parte de su vida echando de menos a su madre, Deborah, quien fallecion misteriosas circunstancias cuenado ella tenia cuatro años. Para empeorar la situacion, su padre, T. Ray, le dice a Lily que fue ella quien mato a su madre sin querer. Lily crecio con su niñera Rosaleen, una mujer negra, orgullosa y sin miedo. Cuando Rosaleen intenta defender su recien ganado derecho de registrarse para votar, la atacan los tres peores racistas de su pueblo rural y la meten en la carcel.

''s The Mermaid Chair is the soulful tale of Jessie Sullivan, a middle-aged woman whose stifled dreams and desires take shape during an extended stay on Egret Island, where she is caring for her troubled mother, Nelle. Like Kidd''s stunning debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, her highly anticipated follow up evokes the same magical sense of whimsy and poignancy. While Kidd places an obvious importance on the role of mysticism and legend in this tale, including the mysterious mermaid''s chair at the center of the island''s history, the relationships between characters is what gives this novel its true weight. Once she returns to her childhood home, Jessie is forced to confront not only her relationship with her estranged mother, but her other emotional ties as well. After decades of marriage to Hugh, her practical yet conventional husband, Jessie starts to question whether she is craving an independence she never had the chance to experience. After she meets Brother Thomas, a handsome monk who has yet to take his final vows, Jessie is forced to decide whether passion can coexist with comfort, or if the two are mutually exclusive. As her soul begins to reawaken, Jessie must also confront the circumstances of her father''s death, a tragedy that continues to haunt Jessie and Nelle over thirty years later.

TRAVELLING WITH POMEGRANATES is a touching and perceptive memoir about mothers and daughters that will resonate with women of all ages. From Sue Monk Kidd, the NewYork Times bestselling author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES and THE INVENTION OF WINGS, and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor. Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann chronicle their travels together at a time when each had reached an important turning point in her life. What emerged was a quest for Ann and Sue to redefine themselves and also rediscover one other. Against the backdrop of the sacred sites of Greece, Turkey and France, Sue grapples with the problem of how to expand her vision of swarming bees into the novel that she feels compelled to write, whilst newly raduated Ann ponders the classic question of what to do with her life.What readers are saying about Travelling with Pomegranates:Wise, moving and beautifulA thought provoking readMagical, revealing and inspiringWonderful writing

Em O livro dos anseios, Sue Monk Kidd apresenta uma inspiradora história de amor, sonhos e perseverança, a narrativa de uma mulher que nunca perde a esperança de se tornar mais do que aquilo que a sociedade gostaria que ela fosse."Meu nome e Ana. Fui esposa de Jesus."Ana sempre soube que seu destino ultrapassava as fronteiras do limitado espaço destinado as mulheres na Galileia do seculo I. Nascida em uma rica familia de Seforis, ela e rebelde e ambiciosa, dotada de um espirito ousado e uma voz que anseia por ser ouvida. Desafiando as regras da epoca, Ana estuda e escreve narrativas secretas sobre mulheres silenciadas ao longo da historia. Quando conhece Jesus, encontra nele um raro estimulo para seu intelecto e tambem uma faisca capaz de despertar seu coraço.Depois de casados, Ana passa a viver com a familia dele em Nazare, onde o cotidiano domestico sufoca seus desejos e a truculenta resistencia ao dominio romano ameaça a tranquilidade de sua vida conjugal. Pouco antes de Jesus começar seu ministerio publico, um ato de rebeldia força Ana a fugir para Alexandria, no Egito. La, ela encontra refugio e proposito mas e apagada da historia de seu grande amor.Amparado em meticulosa pesquisa historica, O livro dos anseios e a narrativa de uma mulher que busca realizar seus sonhos mais profundos e atingir o potencial que tem dentro de si, enquanto vive em uma epoca, uma cultura e um lugar determinados a cala-la a qualquer custo.

An extraordinary novel . . . a triumph of insight and storytelling. Associated PressA true masterpiece. Glennon Doyle, author of UntamedAn extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of WingsIn her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. Their marriage evolves with love and conflict, humor and pathos in Nazareth, where Ana makes a home with Jesus, his brothers, and their mother, Mary. Anas pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to Romes occupation of Israel, partially led by her brother, Judas. She is sustained by her fearless aunt Yaltha, who harbors a compelling secret. When Ana commits a brazen act that puts her in peril, she flees to Alexandria, where startling revelations and greater dangers unfold, and she finds refuge in unexpected surroundings. Ana determines her fate during a stunning convergence of events considered among the most impactful in human history. Grounded in meticulous research and written with a reverential approach to Jesuss life that focuses on his humanity, The Book of Longings is an inspiring, unforgettable account of one womans bold struggle to realize the passion and potential inside her, while living in a time, place and culture devised to silence her. It is a triumph of storytelling both timely and timeless, from a masterful writer at the height of her powers.

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees comes a novel about two unforgettable American women.Hetty Handful Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimkes daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.Kidds sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarahs eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each others destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handfuls cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better.This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.