Before You Knew My Name
Autor Jacqueline Bublitzen Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2022
Considerăm că Before You Knew My Name redefinește canoanele genului thriller & suspans prin refuzul de a se concentra pe figura criminalului. Nu este un roman polițist clasic despre vânătoarea unui prădător. Este o odă feministă dedicată victimelor anonime. Premisa este brutală: Alice Lee ajunge în New York căutând libertatea, dar sfârșește ca o „Jane Doe” pe malul Hudsonului. Ruby Jones, femeia care îi găsește trupul, devine singura ei legătură cu lumea celor vii. Apreciem modul în care Jacqueline Bublitz transformă o tragedie într-o explorare profundă a prieteniei feminine care transcende moartea.
La intersecția dintre Forget Me Not și The Night Visitors, această carte combină vocea unei victime care refuză să fie uitată cu atmosfera tensionată a unui oraș care devorează identități. Stilul este alert, tăios, cu propoziții care pulsează de urgență. Alice nu ne cere să aflăm cine a ucis-o, ci ne imploră să aflăm cine a fost ea înainte ca numele să-i fie șters.
În contextul operei autoarei, vedem aici germenii obsesiei sale pentru dreptatea femeilor, temă continuată în Leave the Girls Behind. Dacă în lucrarea ulterioară se pune problema traumei supraviețuitorilor, aici Jacqueline Bublitz oferă voce celei care nu s-a mai întors acasă. Ritmul este susținut de nevoia disperată a lui Ruby de a-i reda lui Alice demnitatea, transformând lectura într-o experiență devastatoare, dar necesară. Este un debut care nu doar captivează, ci provoacă o dezbatere despre siguranța femeilor în spațiul urban.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1982198990
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 132 x 207 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: ATRIA
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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un thriller atipic, cu o încărcătură emoțională puternică. Veți câștiga o perspectivă nouă asupra fragilității vieții și a puterii solidarității feminine. Este lectura ideală pentru fanii romanului „The Lovely Bones”, oferind un răspuns tăios și modern întrebărilor despre identitate și memorie. Nu este doar o poveste despre o crimă, ci un tribut adus vieților curmate prematur.
Descriere scurtă
This is not just another novel about a dead girl. Two women—one alive, one dead—are brought together in the dark underbelly of New York City to solve a tragic murder.
When she arrived in New York on her eighteenth birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice Lee was looking for a fresh start. Now, just one month later, she is the city's latest Jane Doe. She may be dead but that doesn't mean her story is over.
Meanwhile, Ruby Jones is also trying to reinvent herself. After travelling halfway around the world, she's lonelier than ever in the Big Apple. Until she stumbles upon a woman's body by the Hudson River, and suddenly finds herself unbreakably tied to the unknown dead woman.
Alice is sure Ruby is the key to solving the mystery of her short life and tragic death. Ruby just wants to forget what she saw…but she can't seem to stop thinking about the young woman she found. If she keeps looking, can she give this unidentified Jane Doe the ending and closure she deserves?
A "heartbreaking, beautiful, and hugely important novel" (Rosie Walsh, New York Times bestselling author), Before You Knew My Name doesn't just wonder whodunnit—it also asks who was she? And what did she leave behind?
Descriere
A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BOOK OF THE YEAR'The most wonderful book. Unusual, beautiful, feminist, gripping, deserves to win prizes. I loved it so much.' Marian Keyes'A brave and timely novel which will fuel the debate on women's rights to walk safely through our streets.
I raced through the pages, anxious for resolution, yet at the same time not wanting this beautiful writing to finish.' Clare MackintoshThis is not just another novel about a dead girl. When she arrived in New York on her 18th birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice was looking for a fresh start. Now, just one month later, she is the city's latest Jane Doe, an unidentified murder victim.
Ruby Jones is also trying to start over; she travelled halfway around the world only to find herself lonelier than ever. Until she finds Alice Lee's body by the Hudson River. From this first, devastating encounter, the two women form an unbreakable bond.
Alice is sure that Ruby is the key to solving the mystery of her life - and death. And Ruby - struggling to forget what she saw that morning - finds herself unable to let Alice go. Not until she is given the ending she deserves.
Before You Knew My Name doesn't ask whodunnit. Instead, this powerful, hopeful novel asks: Who was she? And what did she leave behind? The answers might surprise you. 'An exquisitely written, absolutely devastating novel, which gives a voice to all the women who never made it home.' Red'I fell head over heels in love with this heartbreaking, beautiful and hugely important novel.
Jacqueline Bublitz's prose is luminous and the up-all-night, just-one-more-page plot is brilliantly clever and original. Everyone should read this book.' Rosie Walsh, author of The Man Who Didn't Call'A really remarkable book - so fresh and original. I've never read anything quite like this.' Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us'I was mesmerised by this exquisitely written, heartbreaking, lyrical story of friendship from beyond the grave.' Jane Corry, author of My Husband's Wife
Recenzii
The most wonderful book. Unusual, beautiful, feminist, gripping, deserves to win prizes. I loved it so much.
A brave and timely novel which will fuel the debate on women's rights to walk safely through our streets. I raced through the pages, anxious for resolution, yet at the same time not wanting this beautiful writing to finish.
A really remarkable book - so fresh and original. I've never read anything quite like this.
All the suspense and tension we expect from crime fiction - but with complex characters and themes that linger for longer.
I fell head over heels in love with this heartbreaking, beautiful and hugely important novel. Jacqueline Bublitz's prose is luminous and the up-all-night, just-one-more-page plot is brilliantly clever and original. Everyone should read this book.
Stood out among the many thrillers because it focuses on the victim and her life rather than her killer, with echoes of The Lovely Bones
I was mesmerised by this exquisitely written, heartbreaking, lyrical story of friendship from beyond the grave.
An extraordinary and hypnotic read that has stayed with me months after reading.
Fiercely topical and full of compassion, Before You Knew My Name starts where many thrillers and news stories do: the murder of a young woman. But instead of a hunt for the killer, this novel explores the personhood of the victim-who she was, what she loved, all the years that were stolen from her. It's a story about female agency and value in the face of male violence, and also about resilience, about memory, about how love adapts and survives.
A brilliantly powerful read, Before You Knew My Name is an astonishing debut.
Devastating but beautiful... gives a voice to all the women who never made it home. The writing is exquisite and rarely has a story seemed so prescient of the here and now.
Exquisitely composed, with a muscular feminist sensibility, Before You Knew My Name is both elegiac and rhapsodic in its examination of the deaths - and lives - of women.
An unputdownable debut - striking, moving, gripping throughout and so sharp on the things that unite us.
I absolutely relished this clever, original and moving novel. Jacqueline Bublitz is a fantastically adept writer, creating a wonderful cast of characters and a hugely engaging portrait of city life.
Jacqueline Bublitz snatches back the power, giving voice to those whose stories deserve to be told. It is powerful, beautiful. I loved it.
Feminist, fierce, beautiful and urgent with a story that NEEDS to be told. I read parts with my heart breaking and parts that could have been ripped from my own soul. It made me feel seen.
An astounding debut novel that every woman will feel in their bones. At last, a whodunnit, where the victim is the front and centre of the story. Beautifully written, real, feminist and properly haunting, it deserves all the awards.
Full of raw poignancy, explored through the author's expressive mastery of language.
Heart-breaking yet rewarding . . . fans of The Lovely Bones will enjoy this story.
Before Ruby knew Alice's name, life was different.
When she arrived in New York on her 18th birthday carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice was looking for a fresh start. Now, just one month later, she is the city's latest Jane Doe, an unidentified murder victim.
Ruby Jones is also trying to start over; she travelled halfway around the world only to find herself lonelier than ever. Until she finds Alice Lee's body by the Hudson River.
From this first, devastating encounter, the two women form an unbreakable bond. Alice is sure that Ruby is the key to solving the mystery of her life - and death. And Ruby - struggling to forget what she saw that morning - finds herself unable to let Alice go. Not until she is given the ending she deserves.
Before You Knew My Name doesn't ask whodunnit. Instead, this powerful, hopeful novel asks: Who was she? And what did she leave behind? The answers might surprise you.
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