Warum akzeptieren wir Ungleichheit und soziale Ungerechtigkeit auf so vielen Ebenen?

Das ist eine der zentralen Fragen, die FAIRNESS zu beantworten versucht. Anfänglich mit einigen überraschenden, sozialen Experimenten, die andeuten, dass unsere Bereitschaft ungleiche Systeme zu unterstützen, weit größer ist als wir oft zugeben mögen. Wir besuchen verschiedene Länder um zu sehen, wie ganze Wirtschaften verändert wurden, damit sie mit mehr Gerechtigkeit funktionieren.

Dieser Dokumentarfilm untersucht unser Verständnis von Gerechtigkeit und was es braucht, um ein unfaires System zu ändern. Dabei werden sowohl Ungleichheiten in den Gebieten Wirtschaft, Politik und Soziales aufgegriffen, um einen Denkanstoß und einen aktuellen Blick darüber zu geben, was Gleichheit tatsächlich für uns bedeutet.

'The emotional register of Plainsong, though kept in check by understatement and a stoic approach to the vicissitudes of life, is powerful. And Haruf works a quiet magic in the way he fits his characters' lives in with the landscape and weather that surround them' Washington Post Book World

Vorwort
A novel about everyday life and love in Holt County, Colorado

Autorentext

Kent Haruf is the author of Eventide and lives with his wife, Cathy, in the mountains in Colorado.

Kent Haruf's honours include a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. His novel Plainsong won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New Yorker Book Award. He lives with his wife, Cathy, in the town of Salida in their native Colorado.

Zusammenfassung

Set in Colorado in the 1980s, Plainsong tells the story of various Holt residents. There's teenager Victoria Roubideaux, pregnant and homeless, taken in by two ageing, shy and somewhat taciturn cattle-farming brothers -- and the changes wrought in all their lives as a result. Then there's high-school teacher and single-father, Tom Gutherie, who has two sons, Ike and Bobby, and a second chance at romance in the shape of colleague Maggie Jones.

Filled with unforgettable characters, Plainsong is both convincing and compelling; a glorious, eloquent waltz of a novel.

'Like all the best novels, Plainsong takes you into a world that is at once real and vividly imagined. Here is a poetry of landscape, a tender and passionate evocation of ordinary people in majestic country . . . written with a kind of compassion that makes it ultimately powerfully uplifting' Niall Williams

'With its gentle touch and simple, precise prose, Haruf's novel scores a direct hit on his readers' hearts. Plainsong is a perfectly formed, beautifully executed piece of writing that will stay with you long after you reluctantly put it down' Mariella Frostrup*, Mail on Sunday*

In Holt, Colorado, Tom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone. In the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux finds herself pregnant and homeless. Whilst Tom's sons find their way forward without their mother, quiet and gentle Harold and Raymond McPheron agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives are about to change forever.

A novel of haunting beauty, Plainsong explores the grace and hope of every human life and mankind's infinity capacity for love.