Título: Coming Home
Autor: Brittney Griner
Sinopse: From the nine-time womens basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalista raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of Griners time held captive in Russia. Coming Home reads as a deeply personal, publicly powerful documentation of what happenedwhat is still happeningto her body and mind. Slate On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian womens basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittneys world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publiclyuntil now. In Coming Home, Brittney finally shares the harrowing details of her sudden arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine; her bewilderment and isolation while navigating a foreign legal system amid her trial and sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony while the #WeAreBG movement rallied for her release; the chilling prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of Americas forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months. And yet Coming Home is more than Brittneys journey from captivity to freedom. In an account as gripping as it is poignant, she shares how her deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheart and wife of six years, anchored her during their greatest storm; how her familys support pulled her back from the brink; and how hundreds of letters from friends and neighbors lent her resolve to keep fighting. Coming Home is both a story of survival and a testament to lovethe bonds that brought Brittney home to her family, and at last, to herself.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Coming Home”, de Brittney Griner, publicado pela editora Knopf, em 2024 e com 329 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Knopf
Páginas: 329
Ano: 2024
Edição:
Linguagem: English
ISBN: 0593801350
ISBN13: 9780593801352
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Knopf oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas densas e multifacetadas, que transitam entre o íntimo e o histórico, o pessoal e o científico. As sinopses sugerem um interesse por obras que exploram a complexidade das relações humanas, como conflitos familiares, questões de identidade e trajetórias pessoais, muitas vezes atravessadas por contextos sociais e culturais amplos. O catálogo inclui desde relatos biográficos e memórias intensas até ensaios que aprofundam temas como evolução humana e linguagem, com linguagem que pode variar do erudito ao acessível, sempre com um tom que convida à reflexão. Em meio a essa diversidade, há também espaço para histórias de ficção que combinam elementos de suspense, aventura e drama, com personagens que enfrentam dilemas morais e desafios pessoais em cenários variados.
