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Sooley

Autor John Grisham
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 feb 2022

Forța narativă a lui John Grisham combinată cu sensibilitatea lui Steve Marantz în explorarea dramei refugiaților — dar cu un glas propriu, tăios și urgent. Subliniem din start: deși autorul este renumit pentru thrillerele juridice precum The Firm sau A Time to Kill, în acest volum el părăsește sala de judecată pentru terenul de baschet. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care miza sportivă devine secundară în fața unei tragedii umane de proporții globale. Samuel „Sooley” Sooleymon pleacă din Sudanul de Sud spre SUA cu un vis atletic, dar realitatea brutală a războiului civil îi transformă fiecare aruncare la coș într-o luptă pentru supraviețuirea familiei sale. Ritmul este sufocant. Capitolele scurte pulsează de tensiune, alternând între adrenalina meciurilor din Durham și disperarea dintr-o tabără de refugiați. Grisham păstrează precizia din Theodore Boone: The Fugitive, dar adaugă o încărcătură emoțională mult mai densă. Comparativ cu Citizen Akoy, care documentează o ascensiune reală, Sooley folosește ficțiunea pentru a pune cititorul în fața unei dileme morale: cât de mult poate suporta un adolescent sub presiunea succesului și a datoriei? Nu este doar un roman despre sport; este o cronică despre sacrificiu și determinare feroce. Stilul este direct, fără înflorituri, concentrat pe acțiune și pe cronologia strânsă a unui sezon competițional care poate schimba totul.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780593359532
ISBN-10: 0593359534
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 106 x 192 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: J G Publishing

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută un thriller atipic, unde suspansul nu vine din săli de tribunal, ci din lupta contra cronometru pentru salvarea unei familii. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă umană asupra crizei refugiaților, ambalată într-o poveste sportivă electrizantă. Este demonstrația perfectă că John Grisham poate stăpâni orice gen, menținând aceeași intensitate care l-a făcut celebru.


Despre autor

John Grisham este un fenomen al literaturii contemporane americane, fost avocat și politician, cunoscut drept maestrul incontestabil al thrillerului juridic. Cu peste 300 de milioane de exemplare vândute și 28 de bestselleruri consecutive, opera sa a definit standardele suspansului modern. Multe dintre romanele sale, precum The Pelican Brief sau The Client, au fost ecranizate cu succes la Hollywood. Prin Sooley, Grisham își diversifică paleta narativă, demonstrând aceeași rigoare în documentarea lumii baschetului pe care a afișat-o timp de decenii în universul legislativ.


Notă biografică

John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.
 
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
 
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
 
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

Descriere scurtă

After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called off the bench, the legend begins.

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New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court in his first basketball novel. Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon is a raw, young talent with big hoop dreams...and even bigger challenges off the court. In the summer of his seventeenth year, Sam­uel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basket­ball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on an airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true.
Samuel is an amazing athlete, with speed, quick­ness, and an astonishing vertical leap. The rest of his game, though, needs work, and the American coaches are less than impressed.
During the tournament, Samuel receives dev­astating news from home: A civil war is raging across South Sudan, and rebel troops have ran­sacked his village. His father is dead, his sister is missing, and his mother and two younger brothers are in a refugee camp.
Samuel desperately wants to go home, but it's just not possible. Partly out of sympathy, the coach of North Carolina Central offers him a scholar­ship. Samuel moves to Durham, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season. There is plenty of more mature talent and he isn't immediately needed.
But Samuel has something no other player has: a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America. He works tirelessly on his game, shooting baskets every morning at dawn by himself in the gym, and soon he's dominating everyone in practice. With the Central team los­ing and suffering injury after injury, Sooley, as he is nicknamed, is called off the bench. And the legend begins.
But how far can Sooley take his team? And will success allow him to save his family?
Gripping and moving, Sooley showcases John Grisham's unparalleled storytelling powers in a whole new light. This is Grisham at the top of his game.

 


Recenzii

Read it, you'll want to cry too
The joy of a Grisham novel is turning the pages as the plot propels you forward . . . Suffice it to say SOOLEY follows the familiar Grisham playbook - short chapters, plenty of foreshadowing, and a rapid-fire prose that's easy to read and hard to put down