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Keeper de Jessica Moor

Keeper

Autor Jessica Moor
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 ian 2021

Cât de ușor poate fi ignorată vocea unei femei atunci când sistemul a decis deja adevărul? Descoperim în Keeper o premisă care ne neliniștește: moartea lui Katie Straw este clasată rapid de poliție drept o sinucidere banală. Dar la adăpostul Widringham, unde Katie lucra, femeile știu ceva ce autoritățile refuză să audă. Cineva a urmărit-o. Cineva a lăsat bilete. Cineva a intrat în refugiu. Remarcăm o tensiune care nu vine doar din misterul dispariției, ci din realitatea brutală a vulnerabilității. La intersecția dintre Notes on a Drowning și Just Like the Other Girls, această carte combină ancheta tensionată a unei morți suspecte cu portretul psihologic al unor personaje care nu mai au nimic de pierdut. Ritmul este alert, aproape sufocant. Stilul Jessicăi Moor este de o precizie chirurgicală, evitând clișeele genului pentru a expune mecanismele complicității. Dacă în Young Women autoarea explora intensitatea prieteniilor feminine, iar în Hold Back the Night se apleca asupra traumelor istorice, în acest debut ea pune sub lupă indiferența socială. Putem afirma că Keeper nu este doar un roman polițist, ci un semnal de alarmă despre crimele „obișnuite” care se petrec chiar lângă noi. Tensiunea se acumulează prin capitole scurte, iar perspectiva rezidentelor din adăpost oferă o greutate morală rară în literatura de suspans contemporană.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241986387
ISBN-10: 0241986389
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 132 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută un roman polițist cu o puternică încărcătură socială. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă onestă asupra sistemului de protecție a victimelor, ambalată într-un mister care te ține în alertă. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii genului „feminist whodunnit”, oferind o alternativă matură și literară la thrillerele comerciale clasice, fără a sacrifica ritmul alert sau surpriza finală.

Despre autor

Jessica Moor este o voce proeminentă a noii generații de scriitori britanici, fiind inclusă de publicația The Observer în topul celor mai buni romancieri debutanți ai anului 2020. Absolventă de literatură engleză la Cambridge și cu un master în scriere creativă la Manchester, Moor își folosește experiența de lucru în sectorul violenței domestice pentru a aduce autenticitate prozei sale. După succesul răsunător al volumului Keeper, ea a continuat să exploreze condiția feminină și teme de justiție socială în romanele Young Women și Hold Back the Night.

Notă biografică

Jessica Moor studied English at Cambridge before completing a Creative Writing MA at Manchester University. Prior to this she spent a year working in the violence against women and girls sector and this experience inspired her first novel, Keeper.

Recenzii

Jess Moor's debut novel made me want to shout out in anger
Jess Moor is a new young writer I believe in
Still have a Girl on the Train-shaped hole in your life? Add KEEPER to your list
Tense, beautiful and lyrical. Everyone should read this book
A literary thriller, KEEPER is a compelling, tense and pacy read
Keeper is wickedly paced and utterly chilling, making space for the interior lives of its victims and their gradually shrinking worlds, all the while exposing the failures of the systems that are supposed to protect them. As compulsive as it is heartbreaking
Reading Keeper is a visceral experience ... cleverly reminding us that for some women simply existing in a man's world is more dangerous than anything else
Extraordinary and compelling
Intense and compassionate . . . it made me furious and sad, but it also made me feel seen
Pacy, absorbing and electric in its detail, Keeper is compassionately, furiously true. Men should read this book, and I'd be shocked to meet a woman who doesn't find some part of herself here
This is a thriller, but its pacy insights into the ways in which men exert control over women make it one that you need to read
A timely and thought provoking novel that explores issues of power and control with a sensitive and deft touch
Male violence in all its forms is at the heart of Jessica Moor's confident and skilful debut
Made me rage and weep and understand a little better. A powerful book telling stories that need to be heard
An addictive, powerful read and a hugely original novel from a fresh new voice in crime fiction
Powerful and chilling, with a shocking twist, Keeper is an important story, well told
A deeply affecting and important addition to the thriller genre, Keeper explores the escalating horrors of domestic abuse with rare insight and skill. Jessica Moor is destined to become a serious voice on the crime scene
Vastly impressive . . . Deeply affecting and superbly told, it demands to be read
Sharp, incisive writing, and frighteningly believable characters. And what a twist . . .
Disturbing, gripping and illuminating - a page-turner that shines a light into a dark corner of our world
Keeper is extraordinary. Humane, compelling, and absolutely furious in the best possible way. I read the last chapters with my hand clapped over my mouth
For a fictional account this book speaks many truths. The end may shock, but the brutal reality is that this is happening and the most haunting fact is that we are not talking about it

Descriere scurtă

KEEPER is the addictive literary thriller everyone's talking about
AN OBSERVER TOP DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2020
A SUNDAY TIMES STYLE HOT DEBUT: 'READ IF YOU LIKED GONE GIRL AND LULLABY'
A COSMOPOLITAN BOOKS TO WATCH

'Gripping, devastating...Breathtaking' Clare Mackintosh

'Powerful and chilling, with a shocking twist' Guardian

'Grips from the first page' Erin Kelly
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He's been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes.
Supposed to be a refuge. But death got inside.

When Katie Straw's body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police decide it's an open-and-shut case. A standard-issue female suicide.

But the residents of Widringham women's refuge where Katie worked don't agree. They say it's murder.

Will you listen to them?

An addictive literary page-turner about a crime as shocking as it is commonplace, KEEPER will leave you reeling long after the final page is turned.
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'Tense, beautiful and lyrical. Everyone should read this book' - Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton

'A fabulous new writer' - Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murder Club

'Moor's clever, literary thriller is a compelling story . . . A writer to watch' - Independent

'Still have a Girl on the Train-shaped hole in your life? Add Keeper to your list. Moor's debut is a feminist whodunnit' - Sunday Times

'A powerful book telling stories that need to be heard' - Rosamund Lupton, author of Three Hours

'Compelling, tense and pacy' - Observer

'A new young writer I believe in' - Jeanette Winterson, author of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

'Extraordinary and compelling' - Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home

'Wickedly paced and utterly chilling . . . As compulsive as it is heartbreaking' - Rosie Price, author of What Red Was

'Vastly impressive . . . Deeply affecting and superbly told, it demands to be read' - Daily Mail

'Jess Moor's debut novel made me want to shout out in anger' - Val McDermid

'This is a thriller, but its pacy insights make it one that you need to read' - Cosmopolitan

'A pacy crime novel that will have you gripped, and get you thinking' - Stylist