ALEXANDRA FULLER

The debut novel from the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Leaving Before the Rains Come. Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger toward the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota people by the federal government leads to tribal divisions and infighting, the cousins go in separate directions: Rick chooses the path of peace; You Choose, violence. Years pass, and as You Choose serves time in prison, Rick finds himself raising twin baby boys orphaned at birth in his meadow. As the twins mature from infants to young men, Rick immerses the boys in their ancestry, telling wonderful and terrible tales of how the whole world came to be and affirming their place in the universe as the result of all who have come before and will come behind. But when You Choose returns to the reservation after three decades behind bars, his anger manifests, forever disrupting the lives of Rick and the boys. A complex tale that spans generations and geography, Quiet Until the Thaw conjures the implications of an oppressed history, how we are bound not just to immediate family but to all who have come before and will come after us, and, most of all, to the notion that everything was always, and is always, connected.

Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to The Dogs Tonight, will be reading from her extraordinary new book, The Legend of Colton H Bryant, at Borders, Buchanan St in Glasgow on Wednesday 4th June at 7pm. Tickets are free, either pick up in-store or call 0141 222 7700. "A biography of such beauty and sadness that I could only cope by imagining it was a novel. Fuller has plucked this young man's life, turned the cowboy stereotype on its head, and said something truly profound about what it means to be a good person" - The Bookseller Colton H Bryant grew up in Wyoming and never once wanted to leave it. Wyoming - wild, open and heartsearingly beautiful - loved him and he loved it back. Two things helped Colton get through school and the neighbourhood gang who chased after him on his bike yelling 'retard': his best friend Jake and his favourite mantra 'Mind over matter' - which meant to him - if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Colton and Jake grew up wanting nothing more than the freedom to sleep under the great Wyoming night sky and to be just like Jake's dad, Bill, a strong, gentle man of few words who rode rodeo like nobody's business. Colton started work as a driller on a rig, despite his young wife begging him to quit. But Colton's dad worked on the rig and his dad before him and Colton claimed it was in his blood. Colton died young and he died on the rig - falling to his death because the oil company neglected to spend the $2,000 on safety rails. His family received no compensation. The strong, sad story of Colton H Bryant's life could not be told without the telling of the land that grew him, where there are still such things as cowboys roaming the plains, where it is relationships that get you through and where a simple, soulful and just man named Colton H Bryant lived and died.

Este libro es el conmovedor e impresionante relato de la vida de una mujer blanca nacida en el continente africano.

With the same fiercely beautiful prose that won her acclaim for "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight," Fuller describes her trip home to Zambia, where she comes away with a remarkably unbiased and unsentimental glimpse of men who have killed, mutilated, tortured and scrambled to survive during wartime, and who now live with their past.

Este volumen completa los anteriores publicados: Annie Leibovitz: Photographs,1970–1990 y A Photographer’s Life 1990–2005. Las fotografías de A.L. no sólo retratan al ser humano sino que reflejan y b