A Invenção das Asas

by Sue Monk Kidd

Overview

Hetty, uma escrava do inicio do seculo XIX, sonha com uma vida para la das paredes sufocantes da opulenta mans?o Grimke. Sarah, a filha dos Grimke, desde cedo que quer fazer algo pelo mundo, mas e sufocada pelos limites rigidos impostos as mulheres. Tudo tem inicio quando Sarah faz onze anos e lhe d?o Hetty, um ano mais nova, para ser sua aia. Nas decadas seguintes, cada uma a sua maneira, as jovens lutam por liberdade e independencia. Moldando o destino uma da outra, vivem uma intensa relac?o de amizade marcada pela culpa, rebeldia, separac?o, os caminhos invios do amor e tambem pelo nascimento do movimento abolicionista que mudara as suas vidas para sempre. Sera que a religi?o, a sociedade e a familia podem enfrentar os sonhos de duas jovens? Inspirada pela figura historica de Sarah Grimke, Sue Monk Kidd transcende o registo historico para nos oferecer um testemunho deslumbrante e poderoso da luta das mulheres e dos escravos em nome da liberdade. A Invenc?o das Asas e um triunfo da arte de contar historias, abordando um tema sensivel e atual, de uma forma honesta e poetica.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789897101571
Publisher:	Saida de Emergência
Publication date:	07/13/2015
Sold by:	Grupos Editorial Leya
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB
Language:	Portuguese

About the Author

Sue Monk Kidd first made her mark on the literary circuit with a pair of highly acclaimed, well-loved memoirs detailing her personal spiritual development. However, it was a work of fiction, The Secret Life of Bees, that truly solidified her place among contemporary writers. Although Kidd is no longer writing memoirs, her fiction is still playing an important role in her on-going journey of spiritual self-discovery.

Despite the fact that Kidd's first published books were nonfiction works, her infatuation with writing grew out of old-fashioned, Southern-yarn spinning. As a little girl in the little town of Sylvester, Georgia, Kidd thrilled to listen to her father tell stories about "mules who went through cafeteria lines and a petulant boy named Chewing Gum Bum," as she says on her web site. Inspired by her dad's tall tales, Kidd began keeping a journal that chronicled her everyday experiences.

Such self-scrutiny surely gave her the tools she needed to pen such keenly insightful memoirs as When the Hearts Waits and The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, both tracking her development as both a Christian and a woman. "I think when you have an impulse to write memoir you are having an opportunity to create meaning of your life," she told Barnes & Noble.com, "to articulate your experience; to understand it in deeper ways... and after a while, it does free you from yourself, of having to write about yourself, which it eventually did for me."

Once Kidd had worked the need to write about herself out of her system, she decided to get back to the kind of storytelling that inspired her to become a writer in the first place. Her debut novel The Secret Life of Bees showed just how powerfully the gift of storytelling charges through Kidd's veins. The novel has sold more than 4.5 million copies, been published in over twenty languages, and spent over two years on The New York Times bestseller list.

Even as Kidd has shifted her focus from autobiography to fiction, she still uses her writing as a means of self-discovery. This is especially evident in her latest novel The Mermaid Chair, which tells the story of a woman named Jessie who lives a rather ordinary life with her husband Hugh until she meets a man about to take his final vows at a Benedictine monastery. Her budding infatuation with Brother Thomas leads Jessie to take stock of her life and resolve an increasingly intense personal tug-of-war between marital fidelity and desire.

Kidd feels that through telling Jessie's story, she is also continuing her own journey of self-discovery, which she began when writing her first books. "I think there is some part of that journey towards one's self that I did experience. I told that particular story in my book The Dance of the Dissident Daughter and it is the story of a woman's very-fierce longing for herself. The character in The Mermaid Chair Jessie has this need to come home to herself in a much deeper way," Kidd said, "to define herself, and I certainly know that longing."

Hometown:

Charleston, South Carolina

Place of Birth:

Albany, Georgia

Education:

B.S., Texas Christian University, 1970

Website:

http://www.suemonkkidd.com