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Nothing More Dangerous de Allen Eskens

Nothing More Dangerous

Autor Allen Eskens
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 noi 2020

Descoperim în Nothing More Dangerous o schimbare de ton în opera lui Allen Eskens. Deși autorul ne-a obișnuit cu suspansul juridic și procedural din The Stolen Hours sau Saving Emma, aici miza devine profund personală și istorică. Acțiunea ne aruncă în inima munților Ozark, într-un Missouri măcinat de prejudecăți. Boady Sanden vrea să plece. Orașul Jessup îl sufocă. Totul se schimbă când familia Elgin, de culoare, se mută vis-à-vis. Tensiunea mocnește sub suprafața unei comunități care își apără cu violență „valorile”. Reținem dispariția misterioasă a Lidei Poe, contabila fabricii locale. O sută de mii de dolari lipsesc. Lumea spune că a fugit. Boady suspectează altceva. Secretele ies la iveală rapid. Loialitățile sunt testate. Notăm cu interes cum autorul a cizelat acest text timp de 28 de ani. Rezultatul este o proză densă, unde fiecare dialog apasă pe răni vechi. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, de Tom Franklin, deși perspectiva adolescentină a lui Boady și accentul pus pe maturizarea într-un mediu ostil marchează o voce proprie în genul misterului social. Spre deosebire de investigațiile adulte din The Shadows We Hide, aici pericolul este resimțit prin ochii unui copil care învață că dreptatea are culori diferite în funcție de cine o împarte. Este un roman polițist care refuză rezolvările simple, concentrându-se pe fracturile unei Americi rurale în care tăcerea este obligatorie.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316509732
ISBN-10: 0316509736
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 147 x 213 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un mister cu greutate morală, nu doar un caz de rezolvat. Câștigi o perspectivă dură asupra tensiunilor rasiale și a modului în care secretele unei comunități mici pot distruge vieți. Dacă ai apreciat profunzimea din The Kindest Lie, vei găsi aici aceeași explorare nuanțată a clasei sociale și a familiei, totul într-un ritm alert, specific unui thriller de calitate.

Despre autor

Allen Eskens aduce în literatura de gen o experiență de peste două decenii ca avocat de apărare penală, element care conferă autenticitate fiecărui conflict legal din cărțile sale. Și-a perfecționat stilul narativ în cadrul programului MFA de la Minnesota State University și la prestigiosul Iowa Summer Writing Festival. Membru activ al comunității scriitorilor de romane polițiste, Eskens a reușit să creeze un univers literar interconectat, unde personaje din The Life We Bury reapar în contexte surprinzătoare. Locuiește în Minnesota, unde continuă să scrie thrillere psihologice și sociale premiate.

Descriere scurtă

Missouri native Allen Eskens' "stunning small-town mystery" (New York Times Book Review) is a necessary exploration of family, loyalty, and racial tension in America and "a coming-of-age book to rival some of the best, such as Ordinary Grace" (Library Journal, starred review). In a small Southern town where loyalty to family and to "your people" carries the weight of a sacred oath, defying those unspoken rules can be a deadly proposition. After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. The new kid at St. Ignatius High School, if he isn't being pushed around, he is being completely ignored. Even his beloved woods, his playground as a child and his sanctuary as he grew older, seem to be closing in on him, suffocating him. Then Thomas Elgin moves in across the road, and Boady's life begins to twist and turn. Coming to know the Elgins -- a black family settling into a community where notions of "us" and "them" carry the weight of history -- forces Boady to rethink his understanding of the world he's taken for granted. Secrets hidden in plain sight begin to unfold: the mother who wraps herself in the loss of her husband, the neighbor who carries the wounds of a mysterious past that he holds close, the quiet boss who is fighting his own hidden battle. But the biggest secret of all is the disappearance of Lida Poe, the African-American woman who keeps the books at the local plastics factory. Word has it that Ms. Poe left town, along with a hundred thousand dollars of company money. Although Boady has never met the missing woman, he discovers that the threads of her life are woven into the deepest fabric of his world. As the mystery of her fate plays out, Boady begins to see the stark lines of race and class that both bind and divide this small town -- and he will be forced to choose sides. Best Book of the Year: Florida Sun-Sentinel and Library Journal
Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award

Notă biografică

Allen Eskens is the USA Today bestselling author of The Life We Bury, The Guise of Another, and The Heavens May Fall. His debut novel, The Life We Bury, has been published in twenty-six languages and is being developed for a feature film.

He now lives with his wife, Joely, in out-state Minnesota where he has been a practicing criminal defense attorney for twenty-five years.

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'This powerful, unforgettable crime novel is a coming-of-age book to rival some of the best, such as William Kent Krueger's Ordinary Grace or Larry Watson's Montana 1948 . . . A must-read.' Library Journal (starred review)

In a small town where loyalty is valued above all, defying unspoken rules can be deadly. A coming-of-age novel for fans of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter.

At fifteen, Boady Sanden dreams of being anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. Then the Elgins move in across the road. Getting to know his new neighbours - a black family in a community where notions of "us" and "them" still carry weight - Boady is forced to rethink the world he took for granted.

Secrets hidden in plain sight begin to unfold. There's the mother consumed by loss of her husband, the neighbour who carries the wounds of a mysterious past, the quiet boss fighting a hidden battle.

But the biggest secret of all is the disappearance of Lida Poe, the African-American woman who keeps the books at the local factory. Although Boady has never met the missing woman, he discovers that the threads of her life are woven into the deepest fabric of his world.

As the mystery of Lida's fate plays out, Boady begins to see the stark lines of race and class that both bind and divide this small town - and he will be forced to choose sides.

Recenzii

Praise for Allen Eskens
Elegant but chilly prose, like winter in the blood

A taut, intelligent, heart-ripping story that explores the darkest places in the human psyche
Satisfying in every way. I loved it
The tension builds to an all-stops-out finale that works on every level. Thriller fans should keep their eyes on Eskens
Gripping...Eskens tells us in an author's note that he started this book in 1991 and kept putting it away, never quite feeling it was ready. He can proudly pronounce it ready now