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Slade House de David Mitchell

Slade House

Autor David Mitchell
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iun 2016

Considerăm că există o neliniște aparte care se instalează încă de la primele pagini ale acestui roman, o senzație de capcană invizibilă care se strânge treptat în jurul cititorului. În Slade House, David Mitchell transformă arhetipul casei bântuite într-o experiență viscerală și distorsionată. Totul începe cu o ușă mică de fier într-un perete de cărămidă, o intrare care apare doar în condiții specifice și care promite un refugiu celor care se simt izolați de lume. Subliniem însă că această ospitalitate este, în realitate, un mecanism de prădare psihică orchestrat de doi frați enigmatici, a căror invitație ascunde un preț teribil. Structura narativă este una neobișnuită, pendulând prin cinci decenii de istorie, din 1979 până în prezent. Această fragmentare temporală oferă cărții un ritm alert, transformând fiecare capitol într-o nouă încercare de a descifra regulile Casei Slade. Cititorul care a apreciat senzația de izolare și secretele de familie din The House of a Hundred Whispers de Graham Masterton va găsi aici o atmosferă similară de conac amenințător — dar într-un context diferit, unde supranaturalul este reglementat de legi metafizice stricte, specifice stilului lui Mitchell. Credem că Slade House ocupă un loc esențial în opera autorului, funcționând ca o extensie concentrată a universului din The Bone Clocks. Dacă în lucrările sale anterioare Mitchell explorează mortalitatea și destinul la scară macroscopică, aici el rafinează aceste teme sub forma unui horror clasic, dar infuzat cu o precizie aproape chirurgicală a limbajului. Este un joc al minții în care personajele — de la polițiști la studenți — devin piese într-un mecanism diabolic, iar experiența lecturii este marcată de o anticipare sumbră a inevitabilului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812988079
ISBN-10: 0812988078
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 134 x 203 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Random House

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Slade House celor care caută un roman polițist cu elemente de horror clasic, unde teroarea nu vine din șocuri vizuale, ci dintr-o atmosferă de claustrofobie psihologică. Cititorul câștigă acces la o poveste ingenioasă despre nemurire și manipulare, scrisă de un maestru al prozei contemporane. Este lectura ideală pentru o seară lungă, oferind o poveste care te va face să privești cu alți ochi orice ușă necunoscută dintr-o alee îngustă.

Despre autor

David Mitchell este un scriitor britanic de renume internațional, nominalizat de două ori la Booker Prize și laureat al World Fantasy Award. Este autorul unor romane de o complexitate uluitoare, precum Cloud Atlas și The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, fiind celebru pentru capacitatea sa de a interconecta fire narative prin spațiu și timp. Dincolo de beletristică, Mitchell a contribuit la scenariile unor producții majore precum „Sense8” și „Matrix: Resurrections”. Stilul său se caracterizează printr-o versatilitate lingvistică remarcabilă, adaptând genurile literare la viziunea sa unică asupra condiției umane și a legăturilor invizibile dintre noi.

Descriere scurtă

The "New York Times "bestseller by the author of "The Bone Clocks "and "Cloud Atlas "-Named One of the Best Books of the Year by "San Francisco Chronicle, "NPR, "Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, "and"Kirkus Reviews"
"Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door."
Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you ll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won t want to leave. Later, you ll find that you can t. Every nine years, the house s residents an odd brother and sister extend a unique invitation to someone who s different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it s already too late. . . .
Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to the present, leaping genres, and barreling toward an astonishing conclusion, this intricately woven novel will pull you into a reality-warping new vision of the haunted house story as only David Mitchell could imagine it.
Praise for "Slade House"
A fiendish delight . . . Mitchell is something of a magician. "The Washington Post"
Entertainingly eerie . . . We turn to Mitchell] for brain-tickling puzzle palaces, for character studies and for language. "Chicago Tribune"
A ripping yarn . . . Like Shirley Jackson s Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King s "The Shining, " Slade House] is a thin sliver of hell designed to entrap the unwary. . . . As the Mitchellverse grows ever more expansive and connected, this short but powerful novel hints at still more marvels to come. "San Francisco Chronicle"
Like Stephen King in a fever . . . manically ingenious. "The Guardian "(U.K.)
Ahaunted house story that savors of Dickens, Stephen King, J. K. Rowling and H. P. Lovecraft, but possesses more psychic voltage than any of them. "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
Tightly crafted and suspenseful yet warmly human . . .the ultimate spooky nursery tale for adults. "The Huffington Post"
Diabolically entertaining . . . dark, thrilling, and fun . . .a thoroughly entertaining ride full of mind games, unexpected twists, and even a few laughs. "The Daily Beast"
Plants died, milk curdled, and my children went slightly feral as I succumbed to the creepy magic of David Mitchell s"Slade House." It s a wildly inventive, chilling, and for all its otherworldliness wonderfully human haunted house story. I plan to return to its clutches quite often. Gillian Flynn, #1"New York Times"bestselling author of"Gone Girl"and"The Grownup"
I gulped down this novel in a single evening. Painstakingly imagined and crackling with narrative velocity, it s a "Dracula" for the new millennium, a reminder of how much fun fiction can be. Anthony Doerr, author of "All the Light We Cannot See, "winner of the Pulitzer Prize
David Mitchell doesn t break rules so much as he proves them to be inhibitors to lively intelligent fiction. #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Dean Koontz "From the Hardcover edition.""

Recenzii

Ingenious . . . a deliciously creepy story to be read for plot and for pleasure, with your heart racing, and your eyes involuntarily skipping forwards to find out what happens
Packed with heady ideas and pulsing with dark energy . . . both dazzlingly inventive and compulsively readable
An elegant fright-fest of the highest order . . . Mitchell masterfully, humorously, combines the classic components of a scary story - old house, dark alley, missing persons - with a realism, when describing the lives of the victims, that is pacy, funny and true
A clever and deep-frozenly chilling Gothic horror story . . . genuinely good, genuinely scary
Mitchell seamlessly brings together his clashing parallel realities through wordplay so dazzling it seems to defy its own gravitational rules
Chilling and dazzling . . . but the real skill of the book is in its emotional impact. Mitchell makes you care about each of the narrators
Irresistible
Mitchell's most pleasurable book to date, which also features some of his finest writing . . . a quiet, delightful triumph
Plants died, milk curdled, and my children went slightly feral as I succumbed to the creepy magic of David Mitchell's Slade House. It's a wildly inventive, chilling, and - for all its other-worldiness - wonderfully human haunted house story. I plan to return to its clutches quite often
A fiendish delight . . . Mitchell is something of a magician
One of the most enjoyably, deliriously frightening novels I've read in ages . . . gleeful, skin-crawling brilliance
His work manages to beguile, impress and delight in equal parts . . . highly effective, creepy and witty
It's a gripping premise which becomes increasingly suspenseful as the stories move closer to the present day . . . Be warned, this is not a book to read before bedtime
Manically ingenious . . . Vending-machine horror tropes, believable characters, wild farce, existential jeopardy, meta-fictional jokes: into the cauldron they go. Mitchell is at home in this kitchen
A marvellously horrific, sharp and concise masterpiece . . . The novel's brevity should not lead the reader to underestimate just how much punch Mitchell's prose packs. His fiction is intoxicating
I gulped down this novel in a single evening. Intricately connected to David Mitchell's previous books, this compact fantasy burns with classic Mitchellian energy. Painstakingly imagined and crackling with narrative velocity, it's a Dracula for the new millennium, a Hansel and Gretel for grownups, a reminder of how much fun fiction can be
Crackling with menace, yet a delightful sly wit
A deliciously creepy, page-turning mystery . . . Mitchell's gift for characterisation shines through, making everyone vivid
Mitchell flits among the realest of voices - a shy teenage girl, a washed-up cop - in the most supernatural of settings: a brilliant, career-long high-wire act. If you haven't read him yet, Slade House is your 238-page, pocket-size gateway drug
Brilliantly done, spooky, tense and beautifully written, full of the writerly flourishes that Mitchell is rightly famous for
A ripping yarn . . . Like Shirley Jackson's Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King's The Shining, [Slade House] is a thin sliver of hell designed to entrap the unwary . . . As the Mitchellverse grows ever more expansive and connected, this short but powerful novel hints at still more marvels to come
The joy in Slade House is in the discovery. It's in seeing different people make the same mistakes over and over again . . . It's in thinking that you'd be smarter, of course. That you'd see through all this B-movie schlock (like creepy portraits, sad ghosts and stairways that go nowhere), find the secret door, and escape. Only to find that you're already trapped

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Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open.

Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies. A stranger greets you and invites you inside. At first, you won't want to leave.

Later, you'll find that you can't. This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and comes to its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe'en, 2015. Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a 'guest' is summoned to Slade House.

But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs . . .