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Irène de Pierre Lemaitre

Irène

Autor Pierre Lemaitre
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iul 2016

Recomandăm acest roman cititorilor care caută o experiență viscerală, unde literatura devine armă mortală. Irène nu este doar un exercițiu de stil, ci un atac direct asupra simțurilor. Comandantul Camille Verhœven are totul: o căsnicie fericită și un copil pe drum. Totul se prăbușește. Un criminal sălbatic, supranumit „Romancierul”, rescrie scene din clasicii genului polițist în realitate. Tensiunea este insuportabilă. Fiecare capitol este o cursă contra cronometru. Subliniem cruzimea calculată a antagonistului care urăște finalurile fericite. Imaginați-vă tensiunea din The Lost and the Damned, mutată într-un decor de coșmar literar parizian, unde ficțiunea dictează moartea. Merită menționat că Pierre Lemaitre construiește aici fundația pentru The Paris Crime Files, explorând temele obsesiei și pierderii pe care le regăsim și în Rosy & John. Spre deosebire de saga sa istorică The Wide World, aici ritmul este tăios, iar atmosfera este de o brutalitate rară. Este un joc de șah sângeros în care miza este însăși viața celui care investighează. Nu există scăpare, doar o confruntare finală inevitabilă.

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ISBN-13: 9780857056252
ISBN-10: 0857056255
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 111 x 177 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Quercus Books
Colecția MacLehose Press

De ce să citești această carte

Cui se adresează? Cititorilor care vor un roman polițist întunecat, cu o structură ingenioasă. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra genului crime prin prisma unui criminal care mimează marii autori. Este o lectură obligatorie pentru fanii suspansului psihologic care nu se tem de scene grafice. Un motiv concret: finalul va redefini tot ce credeați că știți despre thrillerul francez modern.

Despre autor

Pierre Lemaitre este un autor francez de renume internațional, dublu câștigător al premiului CWA International Dagger și laureat al prestigiosului Premiu Goncourt în 2013 pentru „Au revoir là-haut”. Cariera sa este marcată de o versatilitate remarcabilă, trecând cu succes de la romane polițiste de o intensitate feroce, precum seria The Paris Crime Files, la ficțiune istorică de anvergură. Stilul său este recunoscut pentru complexitatea psihologică a personajelor și intrigile neconvenționale care sfidează așteptările cititorului, fiind comparat adesea cu marii romancieri ai secolului al XIX-lea.

Descriere

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THE NOVELIST KILLS BY THE BOOK
For Commandant Camille Verhœven life is beautiful. He is happily married and soon to become a father.

HE'S ALWAYS ONE CHAPTER AHEAD
But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. When his team discovers that the killer has form - and each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel - the Parisian press are quick to coin a nickname . . . The Novelist.

HE HATES HAPPY ENDINGS
With the public eye fixed on both hunter and hunted, the case develops into a personal duel, each hell-bent on outsmarting the other. There can only be one winner. The one who has the least to lose.

Recenzii

'A unique and gritty novel firmly placing Lemaitre as one of the most talented authors writing in the genre today' Upcoming4.me.
'Fans of the legendary Derek Raymond will love this gem' Sunday Sport.
'Gripping, frightening, intelligent and brilliant' Marcel Berlins, The Times.
'Having now read two of his books I am even more impressed by the writing of Pierre Lemaitre, and am already looking forward to the third book being released in English' A Book Worm.
'Ingeniously plotted, deftly mixing dark and comic scenes, introducing the detective's team with panache' John Dugdale, Sunday Times.
'Irène builds on the considerable promise of Alex and confirms Camille Verhœven as one of the most intriguing protagonists to emerge in crime fiction in recent years' Declan Burke, Irish Times.
'Quirky, brutal and not for the faint-hearted, it is crime fiction of the highest class ... Superbly constructed and executed, it puts Lemaitre very close to Ellroy's class. If you pick it up, you won't be able to put it down' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail.
'Irène, Pierre Lemaitre's first novel, will be the book that people will remember in years to come. Intelligent and engrossing, it's a worthwhile read primarily for that sense of amazement that will have you flicking back through pages looking for the mirrors or trapdoors, but also because of the mystery itself. A crime novel for genre fans penned by a man who is obviously a fan himself' Reader Dad.
'Thrilling ... with a page-turning race to a grand-slam finish' Laura Wilson, Guardian.

Notă biografică

Pierre Lemaitre worked for many years as a literature professor before become a full-time writer. He has won exceptional critical and public acclaim as a master of the crime novel and has won the Prix du Premier Roman de Cognac, the Prix du Meilleur Polar Francophone, and the Prix du Polar Europeen du Point. Alex was the co-recipient of the influential 2013 Crime Writers Association International Dagger Award. Also in 2013, Lemaitre won the prestigious Prix Goncourt, the highest literary honor in France, for Au Revoir La-Haut, a standalone novel about soldiers coping with the final days of World War I.

Descriere scurtă

Camille Verhoeven, whose diminutive stature belies his fierce intensity, has reached an unusually content (for him) place in life. he is respected by his colleagues and he and his lovely wife, Irene, are expecting their first child.

But when a new murder case hits his desk--a double torture-homicide that's so extreme that even the most seasoned officers are horrified-Verhoeven is overcome with a sense of foreboding.

As links emerge between the bloody set-piece and at least one past unsolved murder, it becomes clear that a calculating serial killer is at work. The press has a field day, taking particular pleasure in putting Verhoeven under the media spotlight (and revealing uncomfortable details of his personal life).

Then Verhoeven makes a breakthrough discovery: the murders are modeled after the exploits of serial killers from classic works of crime fiction. The double murder was an exquisitely detailed replication of a scene from Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, and one of the linked cold cases was a faithful homage to James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia.

The media circus reaches a fever pitch when the modus operandi of the killer, dubbed "The Novelist," is revealed. Worse, the Novelist has taken to writing taunting letters to the police, emphasizing that he will stop leaving any clues behind unless Verhoeven remains on the case.

For reasons known only to the killer, the case has become personal. With more literature--inspired murders surfacing, Verhoeven enlists the help of an eccentric bookseller and a professor specializing in crime fiction to try to anticipate his adversary's next move. Then Irene is kidnapped.

With time running out, Verhoeven realizes that all along he's been the unwitting dupe in The Novelist's plans to create an original work of his own. Now, the only person in the world the commandant truly cares for is in danger, and a happy ending seems less and less likely as it becomes clear that the winner of this deadly game may be the man with the least to lose.