It Devours!
Autor Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranoren Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 ian 2019
La o primă vedere, acest volum pare a fi o cronică absurdă a unei comunități izolate în deșert, unde straniul este norma cotidiană. Însă, pe măsură ce avansăm în lectură, descoperim o meditație profundă asupra nevoii umane de certitudine, fie că aceasta vine din eprubetă sau din rugăciune. Considerăm că forța acestui roman rezidă în modul în care echilibrează umorul macabru cu o poveste de dragoste vulnerabilă între doi oameni separați de viziuni diametral opuse asupra realității. Apreciem în mod deosebit construcția lumii, unde sistemul de credințe al Congregației Bucuroase a Zeului Zâmbitor nu este doar un element de decor, ci o forță tehnologică și socială care amenință însăși structura fizică a orașului. În tradiția stabilită de Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel, acest roman continuă să exploreze absurdul existențial, dar mută accentul de la misterul disparițiilor la conflictul dintre empirism și credință. Dacă în Alice Isn't Dead Joseph Fink folosea drumurile Americii pentru a sonda frica de necunoscut, aici, împreună cu Jeffrey Cranor, utilizează izolarea deșertului pentru a diseca mecanismele manipulării religioase. Este o expansiune narativă care păstrează ritmul alert al unui roman polițist, dar îl infuzează cu elemente de realism magic și conspirații guvernamentale, oferind o experiență de lectură ce amintește de atmosfera din Twin Peaks, dar cu o rigoare logică proprie.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0062476076
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 136 x 203 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care savurează amestecul de umor negru și mister metafizic. Veți câștiga o perspectivă inedită asupra relației dintre știință și religie, totul într-un decor unde absurdul devine logic. Este lectura perfectă pentru cei care caută o poveste inteligentă despre apartenență și curajul de a pune sub semnul întrebării autoritatea, fie ea divină sau academică.
Despre autor
Joseph Fink și Jeffrey Cranor sunt arhitecții fenomenului cultural „Welcome to Night Vale”, început ca un podcast independent care a urcat rapid pe primul loc în topurile internaționale. Joseph Fink și-a început cariera editorială prin fondarea Commonplace Books, în timp ce colaborarea sa cu Jeffrey Cranor a debutat cu o piesă de teatru despre călătoria în timp. Împreună, au transformat Night Vale dintr-un experiment audio într-un univers literar complex, publicând multiple volume de succes și colecții de scenarii precum The Buying of Lot 37 sau Who's a Good Boy?.
Descriere scurtă
“Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. I’m packing up and moving to Night Vale! –Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God.
Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider to the town of Night Vale. Working for Carlos, the town’s top scientist, she relies on fact and logic as her guiding principles. But all of that is put into question when Carlos gives her a special assignment investigating a mysterious rumbling in the desert wasteland outside of town. This investigation leads her to the Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God, and to Darryl, one of its most committed members. Caught between her beliefs in the ultimate power of science and her growing attraction to Darryl, she begins to suspect the Congregation is planning a ritual that could threaten the lives of everyone in town. Nilanjana and Darryl must search for common ground between their very different world views as they are faced with the Congregation’s darkest and most terrible secret.
Recenzii
“Very clever.... With a gripping mystery, a very smartly built world (a place similar to our own world but at the same time distinctly other), and a cast of offbeat characters, the novel is a welcome addition.” — Booklist
“Thought-provoking . . . The relationship between science and religion is satisfyingly explored with humor and insight. Readers need not be familiar with the podcast or the previous book to enjoy this work, but fans will appreciate the cameos from well-known Night Vale residents.” — Publishers Weekly
“It Devours! is a fun, fast-paced novel full of off-the-wall humor. The characters’ struggles to find consensus in their opposing viewpoints keep the novel grounded amid the otherworldly antics.” — Yakima Herald
“If art exists to make the stone stony, Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor exist to ask how the stone got there, and why is it shaped like a crocodile, and what strange and creeping threat will it eventually be used to smash.” — Patricia Lockwoood, author of Priestdaddy
“Everything Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor touch turns to gold, which then turns to gold dust, which then finds its way into every corner of your heart and never leaves—no matter how much you may want it to.” — Jonny Sun, author of everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too
“It Devours! is an extremely worthy addition to the saga of Night Vale. Witty and well-crafted, it perfectly captures the odd town and its wonderfully strange, sometimes unsettling inhabitants.” — Charles Soule, New York Times bestselling author of Death of Wolverine, She-Hulk, and The Oracle Year: A Novel
“Will be a delight for fans but also features a funny but nuanced story about the chasm between faith and science. . . A confident supernatural comedy from writers who can turn from laughter to tears on a dime.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Fans will find it refreshing to see Night Vale from different perspectives . . . but knowledge of the podcast isn’t required to follow the story. This unusual experiment in format-shifting works surprisingly well.” — Publishers Weekly
“It Devours! is different from other mystery novels. It is as captivating and light as any mystery novel can be but explores one of the most complex issues: the conflict between science and reason on the one hand and, on the other hand, religion and cult.” — Washington Book Review
“With a gripping mystery, a very smartly built world (a place similar to our own world but at the same time distinctly other), and a cast of offbeat characters, the novel is a welcome addition to any library’s SF shelf.” — Booklist
“Will be a delight for fans but also features a funny but nuanced story about the chasm between faith and science. . . . A confident supernatural comedy from writers who can turn from laughter to tears on a dime.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A lively romp in a bizarre world [and] a thoughtful, touching examination of how science and religion might coexist both in Night Vale and beyond.” — barnesandnoble.com
“A mysterious, must-read exploration of the Great Unknowns, with a touch of Carl Sagan and Agatha Christie.” —
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Descriere
The creators of the wildly successful Welcome to Night Vale podcast bring their genius to the page once more with this follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel. For fans of Stranger Things, Twin Peaks and Stephen King.