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Prussian Blue de Philip Kerr

Prussian Blue

Autor Philip Kerr
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mar 2018

Thrillerul istoric atinge un nou nivel de intensitate în al doisprezecelea volum al seriei. Philip Kerr nu doar respectă convențiile genului noir, ci le rafinează prin plasarea unui antierou cinic în malaxorul a două regimuri totalitare. Notăm cu interes structura duală: 1956 și 1939. În prezentul narativ, Bernie Gunther este o pradă. Fuge de Stasi. A refuzat să devină asasin. Prețul? Propria viață. În trecut, suntem transportați la Berghof, casa de munte a lui Hitler. O crimă acolo este o blasfemie pentru Reich. Reinhard Heydrich cere discreție. Martin Bormann cere viteză. Bernie caută doar adevărul, o marfă rară sub svastică.

Remarcăm modul în care trecutul și prezentul se ciocnesc violent. Un fost coleg din Kripo îl vânează acum pe Bernie, forțându-l să-și amintească detalii de acum șaptesprezece ani. În tradiția volumului The One From The Other, acest roman continuă explorarea ambiguității morale într-o Germanie care și-a schimbat stăpânii, dar nu și metodele. Dacă în Prague Fatale vedeam un Bernie captiv în anturajul elitei SS, aici îl observăm luptând pentru supraviețuire împotriva aparatului de represiune comunist, demonstrând că umbrele trecutului nu dispar niciodată cu adevărat.

Stilul este tăios. Atmosfera este glacială. Kerr folosește fapte istorice documentate pentru a ancora o ficțiune plină de adrenalină. Tensiunea nu scade nicio secundă. Este un joc de șah cu mize mortale, unde fiecare mișcare greșită înseamnă execuție. Această lucrare consolidează poziția lui Bernie Gunther ca figură centrală a literaturii polițiste contemporane, menținând standardul înalt stabilit de autor în lucrări precum Berlin Noir.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780399185205
ISBN-10: 0399185208
Pagini: 578
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care caută un roman polițist dens, unde istoria nu este doar decor, ci motorul acțiunii. Veți câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra mecanismelor fricii în regimurile totalitare. Este o recomandare certă pentru fanii lui Robert Harris care apreciază un protagonist cu busolă morală intactă, în ciuda cinismului afișat. Veți descoperi de ce Bernie Gunther este considerat unul dintre cei mai complecși antieroi din literatura modernă.

Despre autor

Philip Kerr (1956–2018) a fost un autor britanic de marcă, celebru pentru seria de thrillere istorice care îl au ca protagonist pe detectivul Bernie Gunther. Absolvent de drept și filozofie, Kerr a utilizat rigoarea cercetării istorice pentru a construi universul noir al Berlinului nazist și postbelic. Dincolo de seria principală, palmaresul său include romane de istorie alternativă precum Hitler's Peace și The Shot, explorând momente critice ale secolului XX. Opera sa a fost tradusă în numeroase limbi, fiind recunoscută pentru modul magistral în care împletește destinele fictive cu personalitățile reale ale istoriei.

Descriere scurtă

When his cover is blown, former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther must re-enter a cat-and-mouse game that continues to shadow his life a decade after Germany's defeat in World War 2... The French Riviera, 1956: Bernie's old and dangerous adversary Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice--and he's not on holiday. Mielke is calling in a debt and wants Bernie to travel to London to poison a female agent they've both had dealings with. But Bernie isn't keen on assassinating anyone. In an attempt to dodge his Stasi handler--former Kripo comrade Friedrich Korsch--Bernie bolts for the German border. Traveling by night and hiding by day, he has plenty of time to recall the last case he and Korsch worked together... Obersalzberg, Germany, 1939: A low-level bureaucrat has been found dead at Hitler's mountaintop retreat in Bavaria. Bernie and Korsch have one week to find the killer before the leader of the Third Reich arrives to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Bernie knows it would mean disaster if Hitler discovers a shocking murder has been committed on the terrace of his own home. But Obersalzberg is also home to an elite Nazi community, meaning an even bigger disaster for Bernie if his investigation takes aim at one of the party's higher-ups... 1939 and 1956: two different eras about to converge in an explosion Bernie Gunther will never forget.

Notă biografică

Philip Kerr was the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Bernie Gunther novels, three of which—Field Gray, The Lady from Zagreb, and Prussian Blue—were finalists for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Kerr also won several Shamus Awards and the British Crime Writers’ Association Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime Fiction. Just before his death in 2018, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. As P.B. Kerr, he was the author of the much-loved young adult fantasy series Children of the Lamp.

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Bernie Gunther returns in the twelfth book in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris. Lee Child calls Bernie Gunther 'one of the greatest anti-heroes ever written'.

It's 1956 and Bernie Gunther is on the run. Ordered by Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, to murder Bernie's former lover by thallium poisoning, he finds his conscience is stronger than his desire not to be murdered in turn. Now he must stay one step ahead of Mielke's retribution.

The man Mielke has sent to hunt him is an ex-Kripo colleague, and as Bernie pushes towards Germany he recalls their last case together. In 1939, Bernie was summoned by Reinhard Heydrich to the Berghof: Hitler's mountain home in Obersalzberg. A low-level German bureaucrat had been murdered, and the Reichstag deputy Martin Bormann, in charge of overseeing renovations to the Berghof, wants the case solved quickly. If the Fuhrer were ever to find out that his own house had been the scene of a recent murder - the consequences wouldn't bear thinking about.

And so begins perhaps the strangest of Bernie Gunther's adventures, for although several countries and seventeen years separate the murder at the Berghof from his current predicament, Bernie will find there is some unfinished business awaiting him in Germany.

Recenzii

Once again Kerr leads us through the fact of history and the vagaries of human nature
Bernie Gunther is as insubordinate, combative, interesting and entertaining as ever . . . yet another Kerr triumph
Bernie Gunther - sly, subversive, sardonic, and occasionally hilarious - is one of the greatest anti-heroes ever written, and as always he lights up this tough and unflinching novel. We're in good hands here
In Prussian Blue, Philip Kerr once more shows himself one of the greatest master story-tellers in English. The narrative is swift and adept, and so well-grounded in the history and custom of the period that the reader is totally immersed
The twelfth Bernie Gunther mystery is as brisk and agile as its German police detective protagonist
Gunther offers a wry view of several real figures, notably Heydrich and Bormann, and a pithy up-close analysis of the whole Nazi machine. Thrilling
Prussian Blue would be an exceptional achievement considered on its own, but it is incredible to think that this is the 12th novel in an on-going series which is yet to produce a dud. The research and accuracy of the historical setting match that of Alan Furst, but the hardboiled dialogue and Chandlerian turns of phrase raise Kerr's work even higher. Part adventure thriller, part historical procedural, Prussian Blue and Bernie Gunther never make a mis-step
As usual, Kerr is superb at imaginatively mixing his fictional detective with well-researched true-life characters and events
A brilliantly twisting tale of espionage and betrayal
Kerr's novels are modern classics
Streets ahead of most other historical thrillers in its blend of wit, careful plotting and the kind of detail that brings the past to life
Bernie Gunther is one of the more interesting and original private eyes in thriller fiction
[Kerr's] Raymond Chandleresque mysteries about a cynical Berlin cop reluctantly working for the Nazis are his masterpiece
Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels are a high benchmark in noir fiction that blend clandestine historical fact with an epic imagination . . . Prussian Blue is an icy warning from history