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The Cuckoo's Calling: Cormoran Strike Book 1 de Robert Galbraith

The Cuckoo's Calling: Cormoran Strike Book 1: Waterstones Reading the 21st Century

Autor Robert Galbraith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 feb 2014

Simțim, încă de la primele pagini, o melancolie urbană care se instalează discret, departe de strălucirea artificială a Londrei de revistă. Subliniem modul în care atmosfera acestui prim volum din seria Cormoran Strike nu se bazează pe acțiune frenetică, ci pe o observație atentă a fragilității umane. Reținem un protagonist atipic: un veteran de război marcat fizic și emoțional, care navighează printre datoriile presante și un birou ce îi servește drept locuință, oferind genului polițist o notă de realism social rar întâlnită. Premisa este clasică, dar execuția este profund contemporană. Când John Bristow îi cere lui Strike să demonstreze că sora sa, faimoasa Lula Landry, nu s-a sinucis, suntem introduși într-o lume a contrastelor brutale între opulența deșartă a modei și sobrietatea investigației de teren. Stilul are ceva din precizia descriptivă a lui David Mitchell în Number9Dream, fără să fie o imitație — acolo unde Mitchell explorează oniricul și haosul urban, Robert Galbraith alege să ancoreze narațiunea într-o structură logică impecabilă și un ritm deliberat, care lasă personajele să respire. Dacă în volumele ulterioare, precum The Running Grave sau The Ink Black Heart, autorul explorează teme precum cultele religioase sau hărțuirea online, aici, în acest debut sub pseudonim, ne concentrăm pe esența detectivismului pur. Este o explorare a seducției și a amăgirii, scrisă cu o inteligență care transformă un simplu „whodunnit” într-o analiză socială rafinată.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780751549256
ISBN-10: 0751549258
Pagini: 550
Dimensiuni: 154 x 197 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Sphere
Seria Waterstones Reading the 21st Century

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută un roman polițist clasic, dar adaptat sensibilităților moderne. Cititorul câștigă nu doar o intrigă bine construită, ci și o introducere memorabilă în universul unuia dintre cei mai umani și vulnerabili detectivi contemporani. Este punctul de plecare ideal pentru a înțelege evoluția parteneriatului dintre Strike și Robin, într-o ediție Little Brown care onorează tradiția literaturii britanice de suspans.

Despre autor

Robert Galbraith este pseudonimul sub care celebra autoare britanică J.K. Rowling (născută în 1965) a ales să scrie seria de romane polițiste dedicate detectivului Cormoran Strike. Departe de universul fantastic care a consacrat-o, sub această identitate scriitoarea explorează latura întunecată a societății londoneze contemporane. Primul volum, The Cuckoo's Calling, a fost aclamat pentru măiestria narativă și atenția la detalii, confirmând talentul autoarei de a construi intrigi complexe indiferent de genul abordat. Seria a devenit între timp un succes internațional de amploare, fiind adaptată și pentru televiziune.

Descriere

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and psychologically - and his life is in disarray.

The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world, the darker things get - and the closer he gets to terrible danger ...A gripping, elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London - from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho - The Cuckoo's Calling is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Recenzii

The Cuckoo's Calling reminds me why I fell in love with crime fiction in the first place
One of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years
One of the best crime novels I have ever read
Everytime I put this book down, I looked forward to reading more. Galbraith writes at a gentle pace, the pages rich with description and with characters that leap out of them. I loved it. He is a major new talent
Just once in a while a private detective emerges who captures the public imagination in a flash. And here is one who might well do that . . . There is no sign that this is Galbraith's first novel, only that he has a delightful touch for evoking London and capturing a new hero. An auspicious debut
In a rare feat, Galbraith combines a complex and compelling sleuth and an equally well-formed and unlikely assistant with a baffling crime in his stellar debut . . . Readers will hope to see a lot more of this memorable sleuthing team
Laden with plenty of twists and distractions, this debut ensures that readers will be puzzled and totally engrossed for quite a spell
A scintillating debut novel . . . Galbraith delivers sparkling dialogue and a convincing portrayal of the emptiness of wealth and glamour
Utterly compelling . . . a team made in heaven and I can't wait for the next in the series
The detective and his temp-agency assistant are both full and original characters and their debut case is a good, solid mystery
The plot could have come from an Agatha Christie novel and yet The Cuckoo's Calling is absolutely of today, colourfully written and great fun
Galbraith demonstrates superb flair as a mystery writer
This debut is instantly absorbing, featuring a detective facing crumbling circumstances with resolve instead of clichéd self-destruction and a lovable sidekick with contagious enthusiasm for detection . . . Kate Atkinson's fans will appreciate his reliance on deduction and observation along with Galbraith's skilled storytelling
The most engaging British detective to emerge so far this year . . . An astonishingly mature debut from Galbraith, it marks the start of a fine crime career
Rowling is a formidable storyteller . . . the plot is tightly moulded and told
A sharply contemporary novel full of old-fashioned virtues . . . wonderfully fresh and funny. I hope this is the inauguration of a series that lasts long enough to make Harry Potter look like a flash in the pan
The appeal of The Cuckoo's Calling doesn't depend at all on Rowling's prior status. All credit to her: she has created a really good series here. Strike will be back
Rowling's descriptions of contemporary London are excellent
It should come as no surprise that her first foray into crime fiction is so accomplished . . . a brilliant depiction of London life . . . at heart it's an engrossing and well-crafted who-dunnit. Unsurprisingly excellent
It's probably best, for the moment, to forget Robert Galbraith's real identity; this is a very good book in its own right
Her crime debut beguilingly shows that she can renounce magic and yet be magical
An accomplished piece that thoroughly deserves its retrospective success
A gripping, finely crafted and atmospheric mystery, and its charismatic hero, ex-solder-turned-private-eye Cormoran Strike, is a brilliant creation
Beautifully written with a terrific plot ... It's a terrific read, gripping, original and funny ... Please, please give us more of Robert Galbraith and Cormoran Strike
The work of a master storyteller . . . This is a sharply contemporary novel full of old-fashioned virtues
Robert Galbraith has written a highly entertaining book ... Even better, he has introduced an appealing protagonist in Strike, who's sure to be the star of many sequels to come
The master is back. In The Cuckoo's Calling, a detective novel that Rowling published under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, she returns to the strengths that made Harry Potter - the beautiful sense of pacing, the deep but illusionless love for her characters - without sacrificing the expanded range of The Casual Vacancy. In doing so, she's written one of the books of the year
Rowling moves through the polished world of fashion designers and rock stars with the same aplomb as she did when writing about wizards and witches
Rowling switches genres seamlessly ... A gritty, absorbing tale
Cleverly plotted ... Rowling serves up a sushi platter of red herring, sprinkling clues along the way, before Strike draws a confession out of the killer in a climax straight out of Agatha Christie
One of the great pleasures of The Cuckoo's Calling, as with most detective stories, is observing the gumshoe's Aha! moments, without being told what they are ... Money and general fabulousness does for The Cuckoo's Calling what magic did for Harry Potter, creating an extravagant, alien, fascinating world for its characters to explore ... The Cuckoo's Calling is fun
It's terrific ... A brilliant achievement, mordantly funny and monumentally absorbing ... A masterful novel, the kind of big, noisy, busy, beautiful book in which it is so easy and so pleasurable to become enmeshed
I wasn't disappointed. Whether she's writing about Dementors or detectives, Rowling is a pro
The private eye novel is not dead. It was merely waiting for Robert Galbraith to give it a firm squeeze, goosing it back to bold, new life. Hardboiled crime fans are going to go cuckoo for this one. I haven't had this much fun with a detective novel in years
The novel is the work of a master storyteller
Cracking detective novel

Descriere scurtă

The first crime novel from Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling, published under a pseudonym. Set in London, it features private investigator Cormoran Strike as he looks into the case of a troubled model's suspicious death. With appeal to fans of Ruth Rendell and P.D. James, with the contemporary feel of Kate Atkinson. '"The Cuckoo's Calling" reminds me of why I fell in love with crime fiction in the first place' Val McDermid

Notă biografică

Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy.