Dear Child de Romy Hausmann

Dear Child

Autor Romy Hausmann

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 aug 2021

Găsim în această carte o voce narativă care refuză să se relaxeze chiar și după ce ușa se deschide. Experiența începe acolo unde altele se termină: cu evadarea. Dear Child nu este doar povestea unei captivități, ci a unei identități fragmentate. Într-o cabană fără ferestre, timpul se măsura în vizite la toaletă și ore de studiu sub supravegherea tatălui. Acum, Lena este liberă. Sau cel puțin așa pare. Tensiunea este construită din incertitudine: este ea cu adevărat femeia dispărută acum treisprezece ani? În tradiția lui Karen Dionne, acest roman continuă explorarea spațiilor izolate care devin universuri paralele, însă Romy Hausmann reimaginează trauma prin prisma unei eliberări care pare mai degrabă o nouă capcană. Credem că ritmul este dictat de această îndoială permanentă care macină poliția și familia. Dacă în Darling Mine autoarea se concentra pe căutarea obsesivă a tatălui, aici perspectiva se mută pe victima care nu își mai recunoaște propria viață. Găsim similitudini structurale cu Home, unde trecutul în sălbăticie refuză să rămână îngropat. Stilul este tăios. Propozițiile sunt scurte, ca niște respirații sacadate. Nu există momente de respiro, deoarece răpitorul pare să fie mereu cu un pas în urmă, revendicând ceea ce consideră a fi proprietatea sa. Este un thriller psihologic despre cât de greu este să evadezi cu adevărat dintr-o minte care a fost programată să asculte.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250768551
ISBN-10: 1250768551
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 136 x 207 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Flatiron Books

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un suspans psihologic dens, dincolo de clișeele genului. Veți câștiga o perspectivă tulburătoare asupra mecanismelor de supraviețuire și a modului în care trauma rescrie realitatea. Este lectura ideală pentru fanii serialelor polițiste întunecate, oferind o poveste mult mai stratificată și mai viscerală decât versiunea ecranizată pe Netflix.

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NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES COMING SOON
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
"[A] tantalizingly disturbing debut...As enthralling as it is thought-provoking." -New York Times Book Review

BookPage's Top 10 Mystery & Suspense of the Year
Chicago Public Library's Best Books of 2020
New York Times Group Text Pick

A woman held captive finally escapes-but can she ever really get away?
Gone Girl meets Room in this page-turning, #1 internationally bestselling thriller.

A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare.

She says her name is Lena. Lena, who disappeared without a trace 14 years prior. She fits the profile. She has the distinctive scar. But her family swears that she isn't their Lena.

The little girl who escaped the woods with her knows things she isn't sharing, and Lena's devastated father is trying to piece together details that don't quite fit. Lena is desperate to begin again, but something tells her that her tormentor still wants to get back what belongs to him...and that she may not be able to truly escape until the whole truth about what happened in the woods finally emerges.

Twisty, suspenseful, and psychologically clever, Romy Hausmann's Dear Child is a captivating thriller with all the ingredients of a breakout hit.

"Chilling, original and mesmerizing." -David Baldacci

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You escaped. But he will never let you go.

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES: A page-turning thriller perfect for fans of Room and Gone Girl

A windowless shack in the woods. Lena's life and that of her two children follows the rules set by their captor, the father: meals, bathroom visits, study time are strictly scheduled and meticulously observed. He protects his family from the dangers lurking in the outside world and makes sure that his children will always have a mother to look after them.

One day Lena manages to flee - but the nightmare continues. It seems as if her tormentor wants to get back what belongs to him. And then there is the question whether she really is the woman called 'Lena', who disappeared without a trace over thirteen years ago. The police and Lena's family are all desperately trying to piece together a puzzle that doesn't quite seem to fit.

'Chilling, original and mesmerising. Hausmann is a force to be reckoned with' David Baldacci

'A peerless exercise in suspense' Financial Times

'Will haunt you long after the last page' Alice Feeney

'Keeps you guessing' Sunday Express

'Intelligent and original' Sunday Independent

'Outstanding' Publishers Weekly

'Claustrophobic, terrifying and fiercely compelling' Daily Mail

'Disturbingly good' Lesley Kara

'Gripping, suspenseful and beautifully written' Jo Spain

Recenzii

A chilling, original and mesmerizing work. Hausmann is a force to be reckoned with. You can't stop reading
A peerless exercise in suspense . . . Whether treated as a study in trauma and identity or a dark, well-crafted crime narrative from multiple perspectives, it is a nail-biting fare
Claustrophobic, terrifying and fiercely compelling, this is heartbreaking
Dear Child is an accomplished thriller, beautifully written, intriguing and very compelling
I read Dear Child in one sitting, holding my breath. Such a gripping, suspenseful and beautifully written debut. I loved it!
Hausmann makes you care about her characters even while they keep you guessing
Told from multiple viewpoints which gives a satisfying complexity . . . An intelligent and original book
Equal parts mystery, thriller and family story . . . [A] tantalizingly disturbing debut . . . the overall experience is as enthralling as it is thought-provoking. Hausmann creates a dark solar system studded with twinkling stars . . .
At the core of Dear Child is the constant hope that characters will be drawn back to people who mean the most to them, no matter how far apart they've been pulled. That glint of optimism is the light guiding readers as they fly through this book

German bestseller Dear Child by Romy Hausmann is tipped to be one of the UK's must-reads of the summer
Nothing is quite what it seems in this mesmerising debut
One of the best thrillers I've read this year. Flawlessly plotted with a pace that refuses to let the reader come up for air - not that you'd want to
Wow! Such a disturbingly good read. Romy's knack of getting under a character's skin is impressive. I loved it
If you read only one thriller this year, choose this one. Room meets Gone Girl in this gripping novel, which will haunt you long after the last page
Outstanding . . . The multiple points of view and numerous plot twists sustain the breakneck pacing, but the book's real power lies in the author's insightful and sensitive portrayal of the characters involved in the tragedy. This darkly disturbing thriller definitely marks Hausmann as a writer to watch.
A mesmerising and flawlessly plotted debut