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Exposure

Autor Helen Dunmore
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 aug 2016

Observăm în Exposure o lectură stratificată, care se desfășoară cu un ritm deliberat, aproape hipnotic, tipic prozei de atmosferă a lui Helen Dunmore. Nu este doar un roman polițist alert, ci o explorare psihologică a Londrei anului 1960, unde paranoia Războiului Rece pătrunde în cele mai intime spații ale căminului. Când Simon Callington este acuzat că a furnizat documente secrete sovieticilor, povestea devine o cursă contra cronometru pentru soția sa, Lily, care trebuie să navigheze printre minciunile instituționale și propriile descoperiri dureroase despre trecutul soțului ei. Stilul are ceva din eleganța și tensiunea morală regăsite în The Trinity Six de Charles Cumming, fără să fie o imitație — acolo unde Cumming se concentrează pe mecanismele spionajului, Helen Dunmore pune accent pe fragilitatea umană și pe prețul tăcerii. Găsim aici aceeași preocupare pentru destinele strivite de istorie pe care autoarea a explorat-o în The Betrayal, mutând însă decorul din Leningradul stalinist în inima sistemului politic britanic. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Dunmore transformă un incident politic într-o dramă domestică sfâșietoare, subliniind că cele mai periculoase secrete nu sunt cele de stat, ci cele păstrate între parteneri. Este o operă care confirmă versatilitatea autoarei, capabilă să treacă de la poezie și literatura pentru copii, precum seria Ingo, la o proză matură, sobră și profund umană.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780099559290
ISBN-10: 0099559293
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: CORNERSTONE

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Exposure cititorilor care apreciază romanele de spionaj în care emoția primează în fața acțiunii pure. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra anilor '60, văzută prin ochii unei femei care refuză să fie o victimă pasivă a jocurilor politice. Este o carte despre curaj, loialitate și secretele care pot distruge o familie mai repede decât orice inamic extern.


Despre autor

Helen Dunmore a fost o scriitoare britanică de o rară complexitate, fiind poetă, romancieră și autoare de literatură pentru copii. Recunoașterea sa internațională a fost consolidată prin câștigarea premiului Orange Prize for Fiction în 1996 pentru 'A Spell of Winter'. Deși a creat universuri fantastice îndrăgite în seria Ingo, lucrările sale pentru adulți se disting printr-o documentare istorică riguroasă și o sensibilitate aparte față de vulnerabilitatea umană în perioade de criză. Născută în Yorkshire, Dunmore a lăsat în urmă o moștenire literară bogată, fiind apreciată pentru stilul său liric și capacitatea de a evoca atmosfere tensionate.


Notă biografică

Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children¿s author and poet who will be remembered for the depth and breadth of her fiction. Rich and intricate, yet narrated with a deceptive simplicity that made all of her work accessible and heartfelt, her writing stood out for the fluidity and lyricism of her prose, and her extraordinary ability to capture the presence of the past.

Her first novel, Zennor in Darkness, explored the events which led D. H. Lawrence to be expelled from Cornwall on suspicion of spying, and won the McKitterick Prize. Her third novel, A Spell of Winter, won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996, and she went on to become a Sunday Times bestseller with The Siege, which was described by Antony Beevor as a `world-class novel¿ and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Orange Prize. Published in 2010, her eleventh novel, The Betrayal, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and The Lie in 2014 was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the 2015 RSL Ondaatje Prize.

Her final novel, Birdcage Walk, deals with legacy and recognition ¿ what writers, especially women writers, can expect to leave behind them ¿ and was described by the Observer as `the finest novel Helen Dunmore has written¿. She died in June 2017, and in January 2018, she was posthumously awarded the Costa Prize for her volume of poetry, Inside the Wave.

Descriere scurtă

A new novel from the author of "The Lie" and "The Betrayal". Set in London in 1960, it follows Lily, the wife of Simon, who is accused of passing information to the Soviets. With themes of forbidden love, intimate betrayal and the power of exposure. Now in paperback.

Descriere

'A deceptively simple masterpiece' Independent on Sunday'Will haunt you for months, if not years' Guardian'Outstanding ... if you only buy one book, make it this one' Good HousekeepingThe Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbour, colleague or lover.

Recenzii

"Much like a slick, shape-shifting spook, Exposure is many things at once—an espionage thriller, a forbidden-love story, an immigrant’s tale—and it assumes these varied identities with confidence . . . [it is] a novel you won’t be able to shake." —Entertainment Weekly

“Dunmore's strategy, placing a triangle of past and present loves within a spy novel, yields an unexpected dividend. Even the most ordinary elements of life—the lengths to which a mother will go to protect her children, meeting someone special, what remains unsaid within a marriage—become viscerally exciting.” —New Yorker

"[Exposure] takes the form of a spy novel but one that has been quietly and ingeniously deepened well beyond the ambitions of genre . . . [it] is one of those books that you read with your heart in your mouth, your mind fully engaged, and with a sense of desolation as you note the dwindling number of pages left before it comes to an end." —Chicago Tribune

“[Dunmore has] created an unforgettable family whose ties are strong enough to endure what might have defeated most of us. Whose members grow and change with a kind of fortitude rarely depicted in the modern novel. There are resemblances to Virginia Woolf not only in the terrific prose but also in Helen Dunmore’s awareness that much of family life lies in what is not said as much as in what is said . . . Dunmore moves from present to past with uncommon ease; she also moves from one point of view to another with elegance and authority, proving that there are no rules in writing fiction, only what you can do convincingly. And we are absolutely convinced by this story . . . a luminous story of courage and forgiveness.” —Arts Fuse

“Beautifully crafted . . . a very enjoyable read.” —New York Journal of Books

"This book is a triumph—a marvelous piece of seamless storytelling. The characters are so persuasive, as is the period flavor, while the plot is masterly—I kept thinking I could see where we were going next, and then we didn't. This is an imaginative new take on the Cold War thriller, so convincingly told and peopled that you surface from it surprised to be back in 2015." —Penelope Lively

"Dunmore so cleverly interweaves each of the character's stories that as the tale unfolds it has the chilling ring of absolute authenticity. It’s gripping and page turning and all those things you expect in a Spy Drama—but always laced with her trademark humanity. I was totally caught up in the story which is paced perfectly. Her best book yet." —Mavis Cheek