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Sanctuary: A Novel

Autor Luca D'Andrea
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 ian 2020

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Sanctuary reușește să transforme peisajul idilic al Munților Dolomiți într-un decor claustrofob, marcând o evoluție clară în bibliografia lui Luca D'Andrea. Romanul se încadrează în curentul thrillerului geografic, unde topografia accidentată a regiunii Alto Adige nu este doar un fundal, ci un motor narativ care dictează ritmul urmăririi. Premisa este una de o intensitate brutală: Marlene, soția unui lider interlop local, fuge cu o mică avere în pietre prețioase, declanșând o vânătoare de oameni condusă de un asasin implacabil.

Suntem de părere că autorul stăpânește excelent mecanismele de suspans, alternând între teroarea resimțită de protagonistă și pragmatismul rece al asasinului supranumit „The Trusted Man”. Stilul este unul alert, cu accente de realism dur, dar care păstrează o aură aproape mistică, specifică legendelor montane. Comparabil cu The Mountain în ceea ce privește utilizarea atmosferei izolate, Sanctuary se diferențiază prin concentrarea pe un conflict de tip „pisica și șoarecele”, fiind mult mai dinamic și mai axat pe supraviețuirea imediată decât pe rezolvarea unui caz vechi (cold case). Față de The Man in the Woods de Ilaria Tuti, care explorează psihologia unui detectiv în Alpii Italiei, opera lui D'Andrea mizează pe visceralitate și pe transformarea unei victime într-o forță a naturii, totul sub presiunea unei sarcini neașteptate care schimbă miza întregii confruntări.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062897008
ISBN-10: 0062897004
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Harper Paperbacks

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lectură cititorilor care apreciază romanele polițiste cu o atmosferă apăsătoare și un ritm alert. Sanctuary oferă o perspectivă inedită asupra crimei organizate din nordul Italiei, departe de clișeele urbane. Câștigul cititorului este o experiență imersivă într-un teritoriu sălbatic, unde miza supraviețuirii este dublată de o dilemă morală tensionată, totul într-o ediție hardback elegantă de la MacLehose Press.


Despre autor

Luca D'Andrea s-a născut în 1979 la Bolzano, Italia, unde a profesat ca profesor timp de un deceniu. A devenit un fenomen internațional odată cu publicarea romanului The Mountain, care a fost tradus în peste 30 de țări înainte de a apărea în limba sa natală. Recunoscut pentru capacitatea de a imbrica legendele locale din regiunea Alto Adige cu structuri de thriller modern, D'Andrea este adesea comparat cu maeștrii genului pentru precizia cu care descrie asprimea vieții montane și întunericul psihicului uman.


Descriere scurtă

In his haunting follow-up to the acclaimed Beneath the Mountain, Luca D’Andrea returns to the stunning Italian landscape of Alto Adige in this clever, twisting thriller that follows a woman on the run from her crime boss husband and the assassin sent to kill her.

The Italian region of Alto-Adige is the northernmost part of the county, bordering Switzerland and Austria. The majestic Dolomites mountain range encompasses the area creating stark, beautiful landscapes. But this place of beauty also hides an evil side. For within the shadows of the towering Dolomites’ peaks, one man has forged a reign of terror. Since World War II, when he was only a boy, Herr Wegener has been entrenched in a black market crime organization. He is feared by all and controls everyone: politicians, police, and his wife Marlene. But Marlene has finally had enough...
Unable to take her husband’s abuse and cruelty anymore, Marlene has reached her breaking point and goes on the run—but not before stealing millions of lire worth of sapphires from Wegener’s safe as well as his car. Marlene was a young woman when Wegener fell into her life by chance while she was working at a hotel to earn money for her family who still lives in a rural mountain town. He represented protection and sanctuary—until she found out too late how he made his money.
But no one escapes Wegener, and he will make sure Marlene pays for her betrayal. Wegener sends a notorious assassin to kill his wife—an assassin known solely as The Trusted Man and who always gets the job done. Once he is given an assignment, he sees it through to the end no matter how difficult. Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem for Wegener. But then one of his men discovers the one fact that would make him want Marlene alive. She’s pregnant with his son….
With nightmarish villains and kind-hearted heroes, Sanctuary is a fairy tale-esque thriller that will leave readers racing through its pages to keep up with a cat and mouse game between a lunatic crime boss and his desperate, pregnant wife.

Notă biografică

Luca D'Andrea lives with his family in Bolzano, Italy, where he was born in 1979. Sanctuary is his second thriller. His first, Beneath the Mountain, was published in thirty countries.


Descriere

Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
THE NEW AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF THE MOUNTAIN

"Can be compared (with no fear of hyperbole) to Stephen King and Jo Nesbø" - Massimo Vincenz, La Repubblica.

"D'Andrea piles on the action and the atmosphere with the panache of a seasoned writer" Marcel Berlins, The Times.


Marlene Wegener is on the run.

She has stolen something from her husband, something priceless, irreplaceable.

But she doesn't get very far. When her car veers off a bleak midwinter road she takes refuge in the remote home of Simon Keller, a tough mountain man who lives alone with his demons. Here in her high mountain sanctuary, she begins to rekindle a sense of herself: tough, capable, no longer the trophy on a gangster's arm.

But Herr Wegener does not know how to forgive, and in his rage he makes a pact with the devil.

The Trusted Man. He cannot be called off, he cannot be reasoned with and one way or another he will get the job done.

Unless, of course, he's beaten to it . . .



Translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis and Katherine Gregor

Recenzii

Full of folklore and history as well as descriptions of astonishing hardship, Sanctuary is also a study of character and what happens to people's minds when they have to find a way to make sense of intolerable circumstances . . .
With his first book, he was compared to Stephen King and the David Lynch of Twin Peaks. Here, D'Andrea will go even further into the depths of evil
A clever, twisty and chilling page-turner.
This immensely enjoyable chiller/thiller is a superb follow up to last year's bestseller, The Mountain. This novel demonstrates that D'Andrea has no problem at all with 'second album syndrome', Sanctuary is a brilliant piece of storytelling.
D'Andrea's a name to add to your Eurocrime list.
D'Andrea is a real master.
Pulsatingly exciting and astonishingly grisly in equal measure.