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Blackout

Autor Ragnar Jónasson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 aug 2018

Ritmul este unul alert, o cursă contra cronometru sub un cer întunecat de cenușă vulcanică. În Blackout, vara arctică din nordul Islandei își pierde lumina, transformând fiordul liniștit dintr-un refugiu într-o capcană sufocantă. Apreciem modul în care Ragnar Jónasson construiește tensiunea: un bărbat este bătut până la moarte, iar în timp ce echipa de poliție din Siglufjörður se luptă cu propriile crize personale, o jurnalistă pornește o investigație paralelă riscantă. Merită menționat că acest al doilea volum din seria Dark Iceland rafinează formula începută în Snowblind. Dacă în debutul seriei claustrofobia era provocată de zăpadă și izolare, aici întunericul este unul artificial, generat de forțele naturii, accentuând sentimentul de nesiguranță. Ne-a atras atenția complexitatea personajelor; Ragnar Jónasson nu se limitează la misterul crimei, ci explorează ororile nespuse ale trecutului care revin la suprafață. Forța narativă a lui Henning Mankell combinată cu sensibilitatea psihologică din The Girl Who Died — dar cu un glas propriu, mai tăios și mai economic. Stilul este unul modern, dar păstrează rigoarea unui roman polițist clasic. Față de lucrări precum Reykjavík sau Outside, unde autorul experimentează cu mistere istorice sau supraviețuirea în condiții extreme, în această lucrare accentul cade pe fragilitatea morală a unei comunități mici, unde secretele sunt la fel de dense ca norul de cenușă de deasupra orașului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250171061
ISBN-10: 1250171067
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 136 x 208 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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Recomandăm această carte pentru atmosfera unică și ritmul care nu lasă loc de respirație. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii genului Nordic Noir care caută mai mult decât o simplă enigmă. Cititorul câștigă o experiență imersivă într-o Islandă sălbatică, unde limita dintre lumină și întuneric se șterge, iar adevărul este îngropat sub straturi de cenușă și tăceri vechi de decenii.


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A huge bestseller in England, France, and Australia, the third book in the Dark Iceland series from a spectacular new crime writer.

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Easily the best yet. Beautifully written and elegantly paced with a plot that only gradually becomes visible, as if the reader had been staring into the freezing fog waiting for shapes to emerge."-The Guardian, UK (Readers' Books of the Year 2016)

"A chiller of a thriller whose style and pace are influenced by Jónasson's admiration for Agatha Christie. It's good enough to share shelf space with the works of Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Arnaldur Indridason, Iceland's crime novel royalty."-The Washington Post

Hailed for combining the darkness of Nordic Noir with classic mystery writing in the tradition of Agatha Christie, author Ragnar Jónasson's books are haunting, atmospheric, and complex. Blackout, the latest Ari Thór thriller, delivers another dark mystery that is chillingly stunning with its complexity and fluidity.

On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykajvik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance. Ari Thor Arason and his colleagues on the tiny police force in Siglufjordur struggle with an increasingly perplexing case, while their own serious personal problems push them to the limit. What secrets does the dead man harbour, and what is the young reporter hiding? As silent, unspoken horrors from the past threaten them all, and the darkness deepens, it's a race against time to find the killer before someone else dies.

Notă biografică

Icelandic crime writer Ragnar Jónasson was born in Reykjavík, and currently works as a lawyer, while teaching copyright law at the Reykjavík University Law School. In the past, he’s worked in TV and radio, including as a news reporter for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. Before embarking on a writing career, Ragnar translated fourteen Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic, and has had several short stories published in German, English and Icelandic literary magazines. Ragnar set up the first overseas chapter of the CWA (Crime Writers’ Association) in Reykjavík, and is co-founder of the International crime-writing festival Iceland Noir. Ragnar’s debut thriller, Snowblind became an almost instant bestseller when it was published in June 2015 with Nightblind (winner of the Dead Good Reads Most Captivating Crime in Translation Award) and then Blackout and Rupture following soon after. To date, Ragnar Jónasson has written five novels in the Dark Iceland series, which has been optioned for TV by On the Corner. He lives in Reykjavík with his wife and two daughters. Visit him on Twitter @ragnarjo or at ragnarjonasson.com

Quentin Bates escaped English suburbia as a teenager, jumping at the chance of a gap year working in Iceland. For a variety of reasons, the gap year stretched to become a gap decade, during which time he went native in the north of Iceland, acquiring a new language a new profession as a seaman and a family, before decamping en masse for England. He worked as a truck driver, teacher, netmaker and trawlerman at various times before falling into journalism, largely by accident. He is the author of a series of crime novels set in present-day Iceland (Frozen Out, Cold Steal, Chilled to the Bone, Winterlude, Cold Comfort and Thin Ice which have been published worldwide. He has translated all of Ragnar Jónasson’s Dark Iceland series.

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As the 24-hour Arctic summer is transformed into darkness by a volcanic eruption, Ari Thor must find a killer before someone else dies... NEXT in the international, bestselling Dark Iceland series