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Disclaimer de Renée Knight

Disclaimer

Autor Renée Knight
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2015

Observăm în proza lui Renée Knight o precizie aproape chirurgicală a suspansului, unde limbajul nu servește doar la relatarea unor fapte, ci devine un instrument de neliniște. În Disclaimer, autoarea construiește o premisă care atacă însăși siguranța intimității: Catherine Ravenscroft, o realizatoare de documentare, descoperă pe noptiera sa un roman intitulat 'The Perfect Stranger'. Șocul vine din faptul că paginile acestuia recreează în detalii fidele o zi traumatizantă din trecutul ei, un secret pe care îl credea îngropat odată cu singurul martor ocular, acum decedat. Considerăm că forța acestui text rezidă în modul în care Knight manipulează perspectiva cititorului, forțându-ne să ne întrebăm cât de fragilă este versiunea noastră asupra adevărului atunci când cineva decide să o rescrie. Pe același raft cu The Stranger Inside de Laura Benedict, cartea se distinge prin meta-narațiunea sa ingenioasă — ideea unei cărți în interiorul altei cărți care acționează ca o armă de distrugere a unei vieți aparent perfecte. Dacă în The Secretary autoarea se concentra pe dinamica toxică a puterii și obsesiei, în Disclaimer accentul cade pe vulnerabilitatea în fața trecutului care refuză să rămână tăcut. Ritmul este unul calculat, lăsând paranoia să se instaleze treptat, pe măsură ce Catherine realizează că cel care a scris romanul nu dorește doar să îi dezvăluie secretul, ci să îi distrugă întreaga existență.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781784160227
ISBN-10: 1784160229
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Colecția Black Swan

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest roman cititorilor care apreciază suspansul psihologic rafinat, unde miza nu este doar descoperirea vinovatului, ci înțelegerea consecințelor morale ale tăcerii. Este o lectură despre percepție și răzbunare care oferă o experiență intelectuală provocatoare, ideală pentru cei care caută profunzime dincolo de mecanismele clasice ale genului polițist. Câștigați o perspectivă tulburătoare asupra modului în care poveștile ne pot defini sau distruge.

Despre autor

Renée Knight s-a impus în peisajul beletristicii contemporane prin capacitatea de a sonda zonele gri ale psihicului uman. După o carieră de succes în televiziune, unde a scris scenarii pentru BBC, Knight a debutat în literatură cu Disclaimer, roman care a devenit rapid un succes internațional și a fost tradus în numeroase limbi. Stilul său se caracterizează printr-o atenție deosebită acordată atmosferei și tensiunii mocnite. În lucrările sale ulterioare, precum The Secretary, autoarea continuă să exploreze teme precum loialitatea deformată și secretele domestice, fiind adesea comparată cu maeștri ai suspansului clasic.

Notă biografică

Renée Knight worked as a documentary-maker for the BBC before turning to writing. Disclaimer is her first novel.
She is married with two children.

Descriere

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON'S OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016Imagine if the next thriller you opened was all about you.

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“Sensationally good psychological suspense. . . . exactly what a great thriller should be.”—Lee Child
What if you realized the terrifying book you were reading was all about you?
When a mysterious novel appears at Catherine Ravenscroft’s bedside, she is curious. She has no idea who might have sent her The Perfect Stranger—or how it ended up on her nightstand. At first, she is intrigued by the suspenseful story that unfolds.
And then she realizes.
This isn’t fiction.
The Perfect Stranger re-creates in vivid, unmistakable detail the day Catherine became hostage to a dark secret, a secret that only one other person knew—and that person is dead.
Now that the past Catherine so desperately wants to forget is catching up with her, her world is falling apart. Plunged into a living nightmare, her only hope is to confront what really happened on that terrible day . . . even if the shocking truth might destroy her.

Recenzii

“Let me now acknowledge having done what thriller writers love doing: burying the lead. It’s Disclaimer that turns out to be the Gone Girl of the season.” — Janet Maslin, New York Times
“Disclaimer is something special. . . an outstandingly clever and twisty tale that’s been perfectly engineered to make heads spin. This novel’s opening promise of menace is not overstated. Ms. Knight lives up to the initial deal she made with readers and delivers fully on the threat she used to hook them. That’s a rare payoff in a genre full of letdowns. Its value can’t be stressed enough.” — Janet Maslin, New York Times
“Disclaimer is something special. . . an outstandingly clever and twisty tale that’s been perfectly engineered to make heads spin.” — Janet Maslin, New York Times
“Sensationally good psychological suspense…exactly what a great thriller should be.” — Lee Child
“Renée Knight’s debut book is being compared with Gone Girl. . . . Every book of fiction comes with the statement that it is just that: “Any resemblance to actual events or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.”. . . . Disclaimer. . .turns that good-faith promise into a chilling premise.” — Wall Street Journal
“Renée Knight’s debut book is being compared with Gone Girl. . . . A chilling premise.” — Wall Street Journal
“With pitch-perfect pacing and alternating narrators that leap off the page, Disclaimer is both a page-turning mystery and an artful exploration of the explosive intersection between marriage and motherhood, revenge and regret. A wonderfully compelling book.” — Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia
“The marvel of…Disclaimer is that it just about lives up to its unusually gripping premise…[and] forms a trinity alongside Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train as the best of domestic noir.” — New York Daily News
“Disclaimer stealthily steals your attention and by the end holds you prisoner—a searing story that resonates long after the final page. The best thriller I’ve read this year.” — Rosamund Lupton, New York Times bestselling author of Sister and Afterwards
“Knight’s pace…nuilds momentum and ends with a series of breakneck plot twists and surprises.… A seriously unnerving roller coaster…. It’s also a surprisingly sophisticated examination of marriage, motherhood and memory, as well as—naturally—guilt, grief and revenge.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch
“A mysterious book within a book, which contains potentially damning information about the protagonist, jump starts this remarkable debut by British scriptwriter Knight....This unsettling psychological thriller about guilt and grief briskly moves to a shocking finale enhanced by its strong characters.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The first requirement of a fabulous summer read is that it should be too enthralling to put down. Disclaimer meets that requirement mightily.… A gripping, well-written story for those who aren’t afraid of the darker side of summer reading.” — Charleston Gazette
“Knight’s elegant plot and compelling…characters keep the heart of the novel beating.… Atmospheric and twisting…a page-turner. An addictive psychological thriller.” — Kirkus Reviews
“This debut British psychological thriller engages the reader from page one; mystery aficionados will dash to finish it in one sitting. Deliciously captivating, brilliantly twisty, and enticingly addictive, it hits the trifecta for a strong thriller!” — Library Journal (starred review)
“Knight plays with our allegiances in this juicy domestic noir.” — BookPage.com
“This is a good psychological thriller with the ever-popular unreliable narrator, in this case two of them, along with lots of family drama. Sure to appeal to fans of Before I Go to Sleep, by S. J. Watson.” — Booklist
“A terrific novel with a brilliantly creepy central premise. One of the best debut thrillers I have ever read.” — Paula Daly, author of What Kind of Mother Are You?
“The control of the reader’s sympathies, the construction and pacing and the interweaving of [the] narratives, past and present, are remarkably accomplished in an addictive novel that has parallels with Gone Girl, but shows no sign of brazenly jumping onto that book’s bandwagon.” — London Sunday Times
“New authors need to stand out and Renée Knight has a doozy of an opening for Disclaimer…. Why is the driving question here, not how or who, and it’s really well done.” — Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“Disclaimer by Renee Knight is an obsessive read. It is not a book to be read a chapter at a time, but one that demands to be devoured at once.” — NY Journal of Books
“Unsettling…. The ending delivers more than one emotional wallop. Readers’ feelings about each character will likely be upended as they’re reminded that sometimes people commit atrocious acts out of love, and those who behave abhorrently can also be honorable.” — Shelf Awareness (starred)
“A brilliantly conceived, deeply disturbing psychological thriller about a woman haunted by secrets-and the price she will pay for concealing the truth.” — Quivering Pen
“Knight stretches the limits of. . . human emotions and struggles. . . [leading] the reader to a satisfactory and shocking conclusion.” — The Life Sentence
“Knight has twisted a story of decaying love, and built a psychological suspense tale that raises the hair on the back of your neck.… If psychological suspense is what interests you, look no further.” — BlogCritics.com
“Unsettling, yet impossible to set down…. A captivating read you’ll find lingers with you long after the final page has been turned.” — BookLoons.com