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How to Survive Everything de Ewan Morrison

How to Survive Everything

Autor Ewan Morrison
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 noi 2022

Ce se întâmplă atunci când cel care ar trebui să te protejeze devine propriul tău temnicer, invocând sfârșitul lumii ca justificare? Remarcăm în „How to Survive Everything” o explorare viscerală a fricii și a izolării, unde granița dintre prudență și paranoia se dizolvă complet. Premisa este pe cât de simplă, pe atât de terifiantă: Haley și fratele ei sunt smulși din viața lor obișnuită de un tată convins că o nouă pandemie globală va șterge civilizația de pe hartă. Închiși într-un buncăr sofisticat, cei doi copii de divorț se trezesc prinși într-un experiment forțat de supraviețuire, unde singura amenințare certă este chiar mintea tatălui lor. Suntem de părere că forța acestui roman rezidă în vocea lui Haley — un amestec de pragmatism adolescentin și vulnerabilitate, care transformă un thriller de suspans într-o cronică psihologică despre pierderea încrederii în autoritatea părintească. Cititorul care a apreciat sentimentul de claustrare și lupta pentru autonomie din Above de Isla Morley va găsi aici o dinamică similară a captivității — însă Ewan Morrison ancorează totul într-un context contemporan dezinformării și teoriilor conspirației. Dacă în Nina X autorul explora viața unei femei care nu cunoscuse niciodată libertatea, aici el analizează procesul invers: pierderea bruscă a acesteia în numele unei „salvări” nedorite. Apreciem cum ritmul narativ alternează între momente de umor negru și tensiune pură, lăsându-ne să ne întrebăm până la final dacă apocalipsa este reală sau doar o fantezie întunecată a unui om rănit.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780063247321
ISBN-10: 0063247321
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 135 x 196 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută un roman polițist atipic, care îmbină tensiunea unui thriller cu profunzimea unei drame de familie. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra fenomenului „prepper” și a modului în care paranoia poate distorsiona realitatea. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii prozei contemporane britanice care apreciază personajele feminine puternice și intrigile care provoacă certitudinile asupra siguranței moderne.

Despre autor

Ewan Morrison este un scriitor și scenarist scoțian de renume, descris de Irvine Welsh drept unul dintre cei mai provocatori romancieri contemporani din Marea Britanie. Opera sa este marcată de o analiză tăioasă a structurilor sociale și a izolării umane, teme evidente și în multipremiatul său roman Nina X, care i-a adus distincția Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year. Prin How to Survive Everything, Morrison își consolidează reputația de observator fin al psihicului uman în situații de criză, reușind să transpună anxietățile epocii noastre într-o narațiune captivantă și plină de nuanțe.

Descriere scurtă

Longlisted for the 2021 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2021 Bookmark Book of the Year Prize
"One of the most provocative, intelligent and original novelists working in Britain today" (Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting) makes his American debut with this darkly comic and electrifyingly twisty thriller with echoes of Emily St. John Mandel, Lionel Shriver, and Richard Powers, in which a teenage girl and her brother are abducted by their survivalist father who believes the apocalypse has begun.
"An absolutely brilliant read."—Lucy Mangan, journalist and author of Are We Having Fun Yet?
"Hilarious, foreboding with all of the brilliance and brutality of life in between. Haley is the hero of our times—bold, bewitching, and superbly drawn. Her voice rang in my ears long after I reluctantly turned the last page."—Diane Cook, author of the Booker Prize nominated novel The New Wilderness
My name is Haley Cooper Crowe and I am in lockdown in a remote location I can’t tell you about.
Children of divorce, Haley and Ben live with their mother. But their dad believes there’s a new, much deadlier pandemic coming and is determined to keep them alive. He wants to take them to his prepper hideaway where they will be safe from other people. NOW. But there’s no way their mother will go along with his plan. Saving them requires extreme measures.
Kidnapped by their father and confined to his compound far off the grid, Haley and Ben have no contact with the outside world. How can they save their mother? Will they make it out alive? Is the threat real—or is this all just a dark fantasy brought on by their conspiracy obsessed father’s warped imagination?
Propulsive and chilling in its realism, How to Survive Everything is the story of a world imploding; a teenage girl’s record for negotiating the collapse of everything she knows—including her family and sanity.

Recenzii

"Hilarious, foreboding with all of the brilliance and brutality of life in between. Haley is the hero of our times—bold, bewitching, and superbly drawn. Her voice rang in my ears long after I reluctantly turned the last page." — Diane Cook, author of the Booker Prize nominated novel The New Wilderness
"One of the most provocative, intelligent and original novelists working in Britain today." — Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting
"What an extraordinarily wonderful and daring novel this is. It questions everything we are supposed to hold dear - truth, family, love, the purpose of life itself. Through the shallow thinking and petty bickerings of his hopeless, ever hopeful, messed-up, insanely normal characters, Ewan Morrison tells a story with profound implications for us all. Claustrophobic, horrifying, frightening, intriguing, wise and daft, it’s a book full of sadness and humor and, even at its craziest, of great beauty.”
— James Robertson, winner of the Sir Walter Scott Prize
"A terrific thriller . . . puts a very contemporary dysfunctional family at the heart of a very contemporary dystopian reality." — Lynda Obst, producer of Interstellar
“Stylishly crisp, thematically germane—and great fun.”  — Lionel Shriver, journalist and author of We Need to Talk about Kevin and Should We Stay or Should We Go
"I wasn’t sure there could be a great pandemic novel. Here it is." — Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus novels
"This is an absolutely brilliant read." — Lucy Mangan, journalist and author of Are We Having Fun Yet?
"What an extraordinarily wonderful and daring novel this is. It questions everything we are supposed to hold dear - truth, family, love, the purpose of life itself. Through the shallow thinking and petty bickerings of his hopeless, ever hopeful, messed-up, insanely normal characters, Ewan Morrison tells a story with profound implications for us all. Claustrophobic, horrifying, frightening, intriguing, wise and daft, it’s a book full of sadness and humor and, even at its craziest, of great beauty." — James Robertson, author of News of the Dead
“How To Survive Everything is a gritty and (tragically) cool novel. The collision of a broken family and a global pandemic, it reads as a survival guide and feels like (is) a warning.” — David Shields, internationally bestselling author
"I loved everything about [this book] . . . the voice, the world, the humour, the darkness . . . Read now, thank me later..." — Antonia Senior, journalist and author of The Tyrant's Shadow
"A brilliant, intriguing, harrowing, illuminating story." — Tim Minchin, comedian, actor, composer, and songwriter
"Urgent and exciting, harnessing our current global anxiety with a beautifully observed family drama." — Atom Egoyan, director and filmmaker
“A complex, thought-provoking drama about fake news, real fears and frayed family ties . . . both exciting and terrifying . . . a bold and compelling book by a writer whose creative risks continue to pay huge dividends.” — The Herald (Scotland)
"Morrison has concocted an adventurous plot, full of desperate escape attempts and violent confrontations." — New York Times Book Review
“[An] outstanding if often disturbing thriller . . .Morrison succeeds in making readers empathize with Haley even as she admires the “genius” underlying her father’s criminal behavior. This elegantly conceived and written novel provides an unforgettable interrogation of whether coming to terms with one’s own family always involves a degree of insanity. Morrison is a writer to watch.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Notă biografică

Ewan Morrison is a multiaward?winning novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. His novel Nina X won the Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year and is being made into a feature film.

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Haley and Ben's father, with inside knowledge of a new and deadly pandemic, kidnaps them and takes them to his prepper compound for their own safety. They have no contact with the outside world and face deeply conflicting views of reality with no reliable source of news. Will they survive, save their mother, deter intruders and keep everyone safe?