Pip Williams

Una novela sobre el poder del lenguaje para crear historias y descubrir la vida.La redacción del primer Diccionario Oxford contada por una joven coleccionista de palabras.Inspirándose en hechos y personajes reales, la autora ha escrito una novela inolvidable que se publica en mas de treinta paises y que ha entusiasmado a los lectores y a la prensa.Oxford, finales del siglo XIX. Huerfana de madre e irremediablemente curiosa, Esme crece en un mundo de palabras. Escondida debajo del escritorio de su padre, uno de los lexicografos del primer Diccionario Oxford, rescata las fichas de las palabras que se han extraviado o se han desechado, y que la ayudan a dar sentido al mundo. Con el tiempo, se da cuenta de que hay palabras que se consideran mas importantes que otras, y que las relacionadas con las experiencias de las mujeres y de la gente corriente a menudo no se registran. Es asi como decide recopilar palabras para otro diccionario: El diccionario de las palabras olvidadas, que si refleja el lenguaje que se usa fuera del ambi

Oxford, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Esme wachst in einer Welt der Worter auf. Unter dem Schreibtisch ihres Vaters, der als Lexikograph am ersten Oxford English Dictionary arbeitet, liest sie neugierig heruntergefallene Papiere auf. Nach und nach erkennt sie, was die mannlichen Gelehrten oft achtlos verwerfen und nicht in das Worterbuch aufnehmen: Es sind allesamt Begriffe, die Frauen betreffen. Entschlossen legt Esme ihre eigene Sammlung an, will die Worter festhalten, die fern der Universitat wirklich gesprochen werden. Sie sturzt sich ins Leben, findet Verbundete, entdeckt die Liebe und beginnt fur die Rechte der Frauen zu kampfen.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR NON FICTION 2024 WINNER OF THE WRITERS PRIZE 2024 NON FICTION A beautifully illustrated new memoir of a life in art a father and daughter and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean Brilliant Edmund de Waal Captivating Nina Stibbe Extraordinary India KnightOn the morning of 12 October 1654 a gunpowder explosion devastated the Dutch city of Delft Among the fatalities was the painter Carel Fabritius dead at thirty two leaving behind his haunting masterpiece The Goldfinch Thunderclap explores what happened to Fabritius before and after the disaster whilst interweaving the lives of Laura Cumming her painter father and the great artists of the Dutch Golden Age It takes the reader from seventeenth century Delft to twentieth century Scottish islands from Rembrandt s studio to wartime America and contemporary London This is a book about what a picture may come to mean how it can enter your life and change your thinking in a thunderclap Superb this book taught me to see anew Daily Telegraph A book that often borders on the sublime in its sentiment and beauty Sunday Times

An enchanting story about love, loss and the power of language' Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll FactorySometimes you have to start with what's lost to truly find yourself...Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood at her father's feet as he and his team gather words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary.One day, she sees a slip of paper containing a forgotten word flutter to the floor unclaimed.And so Esme begins to collect words for another dictionary in secret: The Dictionary of Lost Words. But to do so she must journey into a world on the cusp of change as the Great War looms and women fight for the vote. Can the power of lost words from the past finally help her make sense of her future?'A brilliant book about women and words - tender, moving and profound' Jacqueline WilsonReaders LOVE The Dictionary of Lost Words:'If you only read one book this year, let it be this one!''If you're a fan of The Binding and The Betrayals you will surely love this''A glorious combination of words, growing up, friendship, love, feminism and so much more''The best love letter to words and language''This book broke my heart ... I highly recommend it to any historical fiction fans ... it's one I will be reading again'

Una artesana de libros desafía los límites de su época para labrarse un nuevo futuroDespués del éxito de El diccionario de las palabras olvidadas, la nueva novela de Pip Williams aboga por el po