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The age of miracles : : a novel

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People - O: The Oprah Magazine - Financial Times - Kansas City Star - BookPage - Kirkus Reviews - Publishers Weekly - Booklist NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A stunner."'Justin Cronin "It's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass'it's the ones you don't expect at all," says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in a time of extraordinary change. On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray. In a world that seems filled with danger and loss, Julia also must face surprising developments in herself, and in her personal world'divisions widening between her parents, strange behavior by her friends, the pain and vulnerability of first love, a growing sense of isolation, and a surprising, rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker gives us a breathtaking portrait of people finding ways to go on in an ever-evolving world. "Gripping drama ... flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan's Emerald City."'The Denver Post "Pure magnificence."'Nathan Englander "Provides solace with its wisdom, compassion, and elegance."'Curtis Sittenfeld "Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving."'Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.

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  • "The age of miracles"@it
  • "Age of miracles"
  • "Age of miracles"@pl
  • "Gab bags"

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  • "What if our twenty-four-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day became night and night became day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on a family and a young girl, who is already coping with the normal disasters of everyday life? Julia's account of how lives can be knocked unexpectedly out of kilter begins on one seemingly ordinary Saturday morning in a California suburb - when she and her parents wake to discover that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. No one knows why, no one knows how to deal with it. The enormity of this change is almost beyond comprehension..."
  • "NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People - O: The Oprah Magazine - Financial Times - Kansas City Star - BookPage - Kirkus Reviews - Publishers Weekly - Booklist NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A stunner."'Justin Cronin "It's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass'it's the ones you don't expect at all," says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in a time of extraordinary change. On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray. In a world that seems filled with danger and loss, Julia also must face surprising developments in herself, and in her personal world'divisions widening between her parents, strange behavior by her friends, the pain and vulnerability of first love, a growing sense of isolation, and a surprising, rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker gives us a breathtaking portrait of people finding ways to go on in an ever-evolving world. "Gripping drama ... flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan's Emerald City."'The Denver Post "Pure magnificence."'Nathan Englander "Provides solace with its wisdom, compassion, and elegance."'Curtis Sittenfeld "Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving."'Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more."@en
  • "Une journée d'octobre apparemment comme les autres, l'humanité découvre avec stupeur que la vitesse de rotation de la Terre a ralenti. Les jours atteignent progressivement 26, 28 puis 30 heures. La gravité est modifiée, les oiseaux, désorientés, s'écrasent, les marées se dérèglent et les baleines s'échouent... Tandis que certains cèdent à la panique, d'autres, au contraire, s'accrochent à leur routine, comme pour nier l'évidence que la fin du monde est imminente.En Californie, Julia est le témoin de ce bouleversement, de ses conséquences sur sa communauté et sa famille. Adolescente à fleur de peau, elle est à l'âge où son corps, son rapport aux autres et sa vision du monde changent : l'âge des miracles. Entre roman d'anticipation et roman d'apprentissage, L'Age des miracles est un livre visionnaire sur la capacité d'adaptation de l'homme, poussée ici à son paroxysme."
  • "One seemingly ordinary Saturday morning in a California suburb, Julia and her parents wake to discover that the rotation of the Earth has suddenly begun to slow. What effect would this have on the world? Or the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on a young girl, who is already coping with the normal disasters of everyday life?"
  • "One seemingly ordinary Saturday morning in a California suburb, Julia and her parents wake to discover that the rotation of the Earth has suddenly begun to slow. What effect would this have on the world? Or the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on a young girl, who is already coping with the normal disasters of everyday life?"@en
  • ""Julia tiene once años y vive una plácida existencia en la soleada California con su familia cuando las noticias informan de algo que cambiará el mundo por completo: es, simplemente, el principio del fin del mundo visto a través de los ojos de una niña.No había imágenes que mostrar en televisión. No había heridos. No había muertos. Al principio fue una catástrofe casi invisible."--Publisher."
  • "'It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown...' What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day becomes night and night becomes day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on an eleven-year-old girl, grappling with emotional changes in her own life..? One morning, Julia and her parents wake up in their suburban home in California to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth is noticeably slowing. The enormity of this is almost beyond comprehension. And yet, even if the world is, in fact, coming to an end, as some assert, day-to-day life must go on. Julia, facing the loneliness and despair of an awkward adolescence, witnesses the impact of this phenomenon on the world, on the community, on her family and on herself."
  • "This book imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life."@en
  • "Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life."
  • "Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life."@en
  • "Een meisje groeit op in een wereld die als gevolg van een steeds langzamer draaiende aarde geleidelijk desintegreert. Hoe lang kan de mens zijn bestaan nog rekken?"
  • "The rotation of the earth has begun to slow and the environment is thrown into disarray. Julia is also coping with the fissures in her family, the loss of friends, the hopeful anguish of love and other normal disasters of everyday life."

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  • "Translations"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Bildungsroman"@he
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Young adult fiction"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Science fiction novels"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Vědecko-fantastické romány"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"

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  • "奇蹟年代"
  • "The age of miracles : : a novel"@en
  • "L'âge des miracles"
  • "Qi ji nian dai"
  • "˜Einœ Jahr voller Wunder Roman"
  • "Vek chudes"
  • "The Age of Miracles"@en
  • "The age of miracles"
  • "The age of miracles"@en
  • "L'edat dels miracles"
  • "Âge Des Miracles, L'"
  • "Doba čuda"
  • "Wiek cudów"
  • "Wiek cudów"@pl
  • "Sūphiphob Niran"
  • "The age of miracles a novel"
  • "The age of miracles a novel"@en
  • "Ein Jahr voller Wunder Roman"
  • "Věk zázraků : román"
  • "L'âge des miracles : roman"
  • "Wij waren hier"
  • "The age of miracles [a Gab bag for book discussion groups]"
  • "The age of miracles : [it was, at the beginning, a quite invisible catastrophe]"
  • "זמנים מופלאים"
  • "L'età dei miracoli"@it
  • "The age of miracles : a novel"
  • "The age of miracles : a novel"@en
  • "La edad de los milagros"
  • "La edad de los milagros"@es
  • "Zemanim muflaʼim"
  • "Ein Jahr voller Wunder : Roman"
  • "L'età dei miracoli : romanzo"@it
  • "L'età dei miracoli : romanzo"
  • "˜Einœ Jahr voller Wunder"

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