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Testimony de Scott Turow

Testimony

Autor Scott Turow
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 noi 2018

Poate dispărea un întreg lagăr de refugiați fără să lase nicio urmă în istorie? Bill ten Boom crede că nu. La cincizeci de ani, el părăsește tot: carieră, soție, țară. Se mută la Haga. Curtea Penală Internațională îl cheamă. Misiunea? Să descopere adevărul despre 400 de romi dispăruți în haosul post-război din Bosnia. Mărturia lui Ferko Rincic este cutremurătoare. Grenade, o peșteră, o avalanșă declanșată intenționat. Morți îngropați de vii. Considerăm că acesta este cel mai ambițios proiect al autorului. Tensiunea este sufocantă. Boom navighează printr-un labirint de trădări. Suspecții sunt pretutindeni: de la lideri sârbi brutali până la generali americani disgrațiați. În tradiția lui Peter Robinson din The Tribunal, acest roman reimaginează thrillerul juridic prin prisma tribunalelor pentru crime de război, unde miza nu este doar o sentință, ci adevărul istoric. Dacă în Suspect sau The Last Trial Turow explora corupția și limitele legii în spațiul familiar din Kindle County, aici el extinde universul narativ spre politica globală. Stilul este tăios. Propozițiile sunt scurte, lovind ca niște verdicte. Nu este doar un proces. Este o investigație care zguduie fundația justiției internaționale. Recomandăm această lectură pentru realismul crud și precizia juridică ce a consacrat opera lui Scott Turow.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781455553556
ISBN-10: 1455553557
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 108 x 194 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest roman pentru cititorul care caută un thriller politic și juridic matur, ancorat în realități istorice dureroase. Veți câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra mecanismelor Curții Penale Internaționale și a complexității investigării crimelor de război. Este o carte despre responsabilitate morală, ideală pentru fanii dramelor judiciare care vor mai mult decât un simplu mister de rezolvat.

Despre autor

Scott Turow (născut la 12 aprilie 1949) este un scriitor și avocat american de renume, considerat unul dintre pionierii thrillerului juridic modern. Cu peste 30 de milioane de exemplare vândute și traduceri în peste 40 de limbi, Turow a transformat experiența sa juridică în literatură de succes. Este autorul a 11 romane de ficțiune, multe dintre ele, precum faimosul Presumed Innocent, fiind ecranizate. Prin seria Kindle County, el a creat un univers juridic coerent și complex, explorând teme precum etica, vinovăția și sistemul de justiție american.

Descriere scurtă

From Scott Turow, #1New York Timesbestselling author and "one of the major writers in America" (NPR), a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor's investigation of a refugee camp's mystifying disappearance.

At the age of fifty, Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he once thought was important: Kindle County, his law career, even his wife. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court--an organization that prosecutes crimes against humanity--he is compelled by a mystifying case. Over ten years ago, in the chaos following the Bosnian war, a Roma refugee camp vanished overnight. Now a witness has finally stepped forward: Ferko Rincic claims that armed men marched the camp's 400 residents to a cave and then set off an avalanche with a hand grenade, burying them alive. Only Ferko survived.

Boom's task is to investigate Ferko's claims, taking him from the Court's base in Holland, to Bosnian villages, to secret meetings in Washington, DC, as he sorts through the alliances and treacheries of those involved: a disgraced US major general, members of the US military, the brutal former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Ferko's seductive barrister, and of course, Ferko himself, on whose testimony the entire case rests--and who may know more than he's telling.

Notă biografică

Scott Turow is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, includingIdentical,Innocent,Presumed Innocent, andThe Burden of Proof, and two nonfiction books, includingOne L, about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into movies and television projects. He has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as theNew York Times,Washington Post,Vanity Fair,The New Yorker, andThe Atlantic.

Recenzii

"This is at once a thriller, a story of middle-aged angst, an exposition of international law and an exploration of an intensely serious and very nasty episode in recent history...admirable and important."—New York Times Book Review
"The real pleasure of the new novel lies not so much in solving the mystery of the massacre as in watching Turow knock down assumption after assumption made by Boom--and the reader. In fact, I can't think of another novel in which so many givens end up being exposed as either honest mistakes or outright lies. TESTIMONY is a tour de force of collapsing perceptions."—Washington Post
"The master of the courtroom drama, Scott Turow's latest legal thriller goes international and is a page turner not to be missed!"—Daniel Silva, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Black Widow
"TESTIMONY is Scott Turow's most ambitious and complex work-which takes us from the gritty familiarity of his beloved Kindle County into a mysterious world of international intrigue. It's the best kind of thriller, which stimulates the mind as well as thrilling the heart."—Jeffrey Toobin, New York Times bestselling author of American Heiress
"A compelling story, told with Turow's usual ease, authority and understated humor."—Chicago Tribune
"Turow's lively prose and terrific cast of supporting characters make TESTIMONY one for the beach bag...This is a guy who knows what he's doing: Turow has been crafting intricate, best-selling legal thrillers dating back to his blockbuster wifedunit,Presumed Innocent(30 years ago!)."—USA Today
"Scott Turow writes with zest and authority about the inner workings of the law...TESTIMONY unfolds in highly descriptive prose and is sprinkled with colorful characters."—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Turow applies the same storytelling magic to the ICC that has drawn scores of readers into his Kindle County courtrooms, weaving fascinating details about the challenges of prosecuting war crimes into a suspenseful story of redemption and the complexities of justice."—Booklist
"Follows twists and turns, shifting alliances, and a near-fatal confrontation... [TESTIMONY] is exciting and consistent with Turow's prior novels."—The Missourian
"A complex and haunting tale of war crimes that will not only satisfy his courtroom drama devotees but also readers of international thrillers."—Library Journal
"Bestseller Turow (Identical) movingly evokes the horrors of the Balkan wars in this gripping thriller."—Publishers Weekly
"TESTIMONY is an absolutely crackerjack read, and again leaves us wishing that Turow would haul out his typewriter a tad more often."—Winnipeg Free Press
"A thriller yarn with many twists and turns."—Chicago Sun-Times
"Raises important questions of responsibility, patriotism, corruption and the role of military power. And even as it confronts these weighty issues, it keeps the reader engaged in a page-turning thriller...Turow is back on his game in TESTIMONY."—Illinois Times
"Fast-paced...Scott Turow is first and foremost a storyteller, and that's what propels the action, that and trying to figure out the truth...another fine book by this very fine writer."—Washington Times
"[A] smart, demanding thriller."—Washington Post,"17 Thrillers and Mysteries Worth Toting to the Beach"