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Elizabeth Is Missing de Emma Healey

Elizabeth Is Missing

Autor Emma Healey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2015

Proza lui Emma Healey funcționează ca un mecanism de precizie sub presiunea unei incertitudini constante. Stilul este tăios, fragmentat, oglindind perfect mintea personajului principal. Descoperim aici o voce narativă care ne forțează să vedem lumea prin lentila distorsionată a demenței. Maud uită ceaiul pe masă. Maud își uită propria fiică. Dar Maud știe un singur lucru: Elizabeth a dispărut. Biletul din buzunar îi confirmă frica. Nimeni nu o ascultă. Toți îi spun să tacă. Tensiunea crește cu fiecare pagină pe care Maud o întoarce în căutarea unui adevăr pe care restul lumii l-a abandonat. La intersecția dintre One Puzzling Afternoon și Mr Nobody, acest roman polițist combină fragilitatea bătrâneții cu rigoarea unui mister istoric. Putem afirma că autoarea reușește ceva rar: un suspans care nu vine din acțiune exterioară, ci din lupta cu propriile amintiri. În acest volum de debut, Emma Healey explorează teme pe care le vom regăsi, într-o formă mai întunecată, și în lucrări ulterioare precum Whistle in the Dark sau Sweat. Misterul de acum șapte decenii se ciocnește violent cu prezentul. Subliniem faptul că, deși avem o naratoare nesigură, emoția este cât se poate de reală. Este o cursă contra cronometru într-o minte care își pierde reperele, unde fiecare indiciu găsit este o victorie fragilă în fața uitării.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062309686
ISBN-10: 0062309684
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 134 x 208 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută un roman polițist atipic, unde detectivul este propria victimă a memoriei. Veți câștiga o perspectivă profund umană și tulburătoare asupra fragilității minții, totul ambalat într-un mister care vă va ține în alertă. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii dramelor psihologice britanice care pun accent pe emoție și structură narativă ingenioasă.

Despre autor

Emma Healey este o scriitoare britanică contemporană, deținătoare a unei diplome în legătorie de cărți și a unui master în scriere creativă. Debutul său literar cu Elizabeth is Missing a reprezentat un succes internațional fulminant, fiind recompensat cu prestigiosul Costa First Novel Award. Stilul său se remarcă prin explorarea psihologiei umane în situații limită și prin capacitatea de a crea tensiune din detalii cotidiene. Emma Healey locuiește în Regatul Unit, unde continuă să publice romane de suspans psihologic, fiind considerată una dintre cele mai proeminente voci noi ale literaturii britanice actuale.

Descriere scurtă

How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues?
In this darkly riveting debut novel—a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging—an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and her search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences.
Maud, an aging grandmother, is slowly losing her memory—and her grip on everyday life. Yet she refuses to forget her best friend Elizabeth, whom she is convinced is missing and in terrible danger.
But no one will listen to Maud—not her frustrated daughter, Helen, not her caretakers, not the police, and especially not Elizabeth’s mercurial son, Peter. Armed with handwritten notes she leaves for herself and an overwhelming feeling that Elizabeth needs her help, Maud resolves to discover the truth and save her beloved friend.
This singular obsession forms a cornerstone of Maud’s rapidly dissolving present. But the clues she discovers seem only to lead her deeper into her past, to another unsolved disappearance: her sister, Sukey, who vanished shortly after World War II.
As vivid memories of a tragedy that occurred more fifty years ago come flooding back, Maud discovers new momentum in her search for her friend. Could the mystery of Sukey’s disappearance hold the key to finding Elizabeth?

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she went. Sometimes her home is unrecognizable—or her daughter, Helen, seems a total stranger.
But there's one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. And no matter who tells her to stop going on about it, to leave it alone, to shut up, Maud will get to the bottom of it.
Because somewhere in Maud's damaged mind lies the answer to an unsolved seventy-year-old mystery. One everyone has forgotten about.
Everyone, except Maud . . .
A page-turning story of suspense, Elizabeth Is Missing hauntingly reminds us that we are all at the mercy of our memory. Always compelling, often poignant, and at times even blackly witty, this is an absolutely unforgettable novel.

Recenzii

“[A] knockout debut…. Ms. Healey’s audacious conception and formidable talent combine in a bravura performance that sustains its momentum and pathos to the last.” — Wall Street Journal
"Spellbinding." — New York Times Book Review
“Ingeniously structured and remarkably poignant…. A riveting story of friendship and loss that will have you compulsively puzzling fact from fiction as you race to the last page.” — Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, Where They Found Her, and A Good Marriage
“This is no conventional crime novel but a compelling work that crosses literary genres. Maud’s experience of dementia is harrowing at times, especially in comparison to her completely lucid moments. The two mysteries at the heart of the book, too—one experienced as a girl and the other as an elderly woman—are brilliantly handled. The result is bold, touching and hugely memorable.” — Sunday Times (London)
“Elizabeth Is Missing is every bit as compelling as the...hype suggests.... The novel is both a gripping detective yarn and a haunting depiction of mental illness, but also more poignant and blackly comic than you might expect.” — The Observer (London)
“Not only have we several genres in the one novel, we have two main themes. How it feels to experience dementia, and a page-turner of a detective story. If I had to describe it in one word, it would be beautiful. It is a gripping thriller, but it’s also about life and love: the love of an exasperated daughter for her mother; the love of sisters and of friends and the love I felt for Maud.” — The Independent (London)
“A compelling read, Elizabeth is Missing offers added depth of mystery and suspense along with aptly portraying a family trying to cope with illness.” — New York Journal of Books
“A gripping mystery…this bears comparison to A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and S. J. Watson’s Before I Go to Sleep. — The Bookseller, “Ones to Watch”
“Elizabeth is Missing will stir and shake you: an investigation into a seventy-year-old crime, through the eyes of the most likeably unreliable of narrators. But the real mystery at its compassionate core is the fragmentation of the human mind.” — Emma Donoghue
“Part mystery, part meditation on memory, part Dickensian revelation of how apparent charity may hurt its recipients, this is altogether brilliant.” — Booklist (starred review)
“British author Healey draws on her own grandmothers’ experiences to create the distinctive narrator of her first novel… an absorbing tale.” — Publishers Weekly
“Maud’s memory is failing, slipping further away each day. So how can she convince anyone that her best friend is truly missing?…A poignant novel of loss.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Healey is able to imagine and empathize on such a level because she’s simply a brilliant writer. Let’s hope we hear much more from her over the years.” — BookPage
“A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp.” — Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
“This novel genuinely is one of those semi-mythical beasts, the book you cannot put down.” — Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotter’s Club

Notă biografică

Emma Healey, a former bookseller, grew up in London where she went to art college and completed her first degree in bookbinding. She then worked for two libraries, two bookshops, two art galleries and two universities, and was busily pursuing a career in the art world before writing overtook everything. She moved to Norwich in 2010 to study for the MA in Creative Writing at UEA and never moved back again. Elizabeth is Missing, her first novel, was a Sunday Times Bestseller, won the Costa First Novel Award 2014 and was shortlisted for the National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year.