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Sunrise by Téa Obreht review – secrets and myths in the American west

Set across three interwoven timelines, this absorbing tale of an abandoned mining town explores courage, cowardice and how history is recorded

TĂ©a Obreht’s novels teem with conflicting narratives, treacherous landscapes and speculative fictions. Her 2010 prizewinning debut, The Tiger’s Wife, examined themes of death, miracles and outsider status in the midst of a fictional Balkan war. Her fourth novel, Sunrise, returns to a western frontier haunted by ghosts and stalked by outlaws, a territory Obreht first explored in her second book, Inland.

It is August 2024. Nina Terzic has just jumped – or was she pushed? – from a crash-landing Cessna into a lake somewhere in the mountains of Wyoming. She manages to swim to shore. There is no sign of her boyfriend Ben, who was in the plane with her, and her phone – though miraculously intact – has no signal. Nina, a postgraduate student, was supposed to be on holiday from her job as a live-in nanny in New York. We get the feeling that her relationship with Ben might have a darker underside.

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Waves Turn review – the exhausting, joyful, boring, wondrous realities of new motherhood

Josephine Ahnelt’s gentle but truthful documentary has home-movie intimacy and some incredibly touching moments

As a piece of art depicting motherhood, Judith Rohrmoser’s self-portrait of breastfeeding sticks two fingers up at the tradition of the Madonna with child. In her painting, Rohrmoser’s baby feeds contentedly, chubby cheeked and sleepy under damp lashes. The artist is less serene, looking directly at us, headphones clamped over her ears, eyes filled with what might be a roar of grief, or possibly an overwhelming sense that everything has changed.

Rohrmoser is one of five women who agreed to be filmed at their most vulnerable in the first year of motherhood for this Austrian documentary. It’s a gentle but truthful look at new motherhood, making the point that – ignore the Renaissance artists – having a tiny baby does not put you in perpetual state of bliss. The reality is exhaustion, joy, boredom, wonder and a rush of other feelings. Director Josephine Ahnelt shoots in 16mm, her camera up close, filming with the intimacy of a home video, cutting off heads to at one point zero in on what interests her: a mother snipping her baby’s tiny fingernails.

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OekraĂŻne meldt doden bij nachtelijke Russische aanval

KHARKIV (ANP/RTR/AFP) - Bij nachtelijke aanvallen op het noordoosten van OekraĂŻne zijn minstens tien doden gevallen, meldt de gouverneur van de regio Kharkiv. De doden vielen in Petsjenihy, een dorp in de buurt van Kharkiv en de Russische grens.

Acht mensen raakten volgens de gouverneur gewond. Ook raakten huizen en winkels beschadigd.

Eerder werd gemeld dat opnieuw een locatie van de Russische webwinkel Wildberries was geraakt. Moskou meldde dat OekraĂŻne dinsdagochtend 620 drones op Rusland heeft afgestuurd. De burgemeester van de stad zegt dat 180 van de drones werden neergehaald. In de door Rusland geannexeerde Krim viel de stroom uit door aanvallen.


Pitcher Jansen heeft 492e save binnen in Amerikaanse MLB

PITTSBURGH (ANP) - Honkbalinternational Kenley Jansen (38) heeft in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag voor de 492e keer in de Major League Baseball (MLB) een save op zijn naam gekregen. Het was zijn zestiende save dit seizoen.

Een save in het honkbal wordt toegekend aan de werper die een wedstrijd succesvol beëindigt voor het winnende team. De pitcher zette zijn prestatie neer in de wedstrijd van zijn club Detroit Tigers tegen Pittsburgh Pirates. De Tigers wonnen met 8-5.

Jansen heeft de meeste saves van alle nog actieve werpers in de MLB. De closer deed eerder dit jaar met het Nederlandse Koninkrijksteam mee aan de World Baseball Classic. De Panamees Mariano Rivera is recordhouder in de Major League met 652 saves.


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Over 600 Ukrainian Drones Target Moscow Region in Major Air Assault

At least three people, including a 10-year-old girl, were injured across the region, local authorities said Tuesday morning.

Found Slide -- 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in Color

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