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The Familiar Dark: The must-read, utterly gripping thriller you won't be able to put down de Amy Engel

The Familiar Dark: The must-read, utterly gripping thriller you won't be able to put down

Autor Amy Engel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 feb 2022

Munții Ozark, Missouri. Un peisaj arid, marcat de praf și disperare. Aici, timpul pare să fi stat în loc pentru familiile din parcurile de rulote, unde supraviețuirea este singura monedă de schimb. În acest decor ostil începe The Familiar Dark. Un oraș mic. O poliție coruptă. Două fetițe moarte într-un parc. Una dintre ele este Junie, fiica lui Eve Taggert. Ne-a atras atenția brutalitatea onestă a premisei: o mamă care a încercat toată viața să fugă de moștenirea unei familii violente este forțată să îmbrățișeze tocmai acea cruzime pentru a afla adevărul.

Subliniem ritmul alert și atmosfera apăsătoare. Amy Engel nu menajează cititorul. Stilul este tăios, reflectând realitatea dură a maternității în condiții de marginalizare socială. Suntem de părere că forța romanului rezidă în transformarea lui Eve. Ea trebuie să redevină fiica mamei sale — o femeie aspră și nemiloasă — pentru a pătrunde în secretele pe care comunitatea le ascunde cu înverșunare. Ca și Only Girl Alive de Holly S. Roberts, acest roman explorează impactul devastator al crimelor asupra unor comunități închise, dar o face dintr-o perspectivă mult mai viscerală, axată pe „moștenirea” violenței transmise între generații de femei.

Față de succesul anterior al autoarei, The Roanoke Girls, care analiza secretele întunecate ale unei familii înstărite, The Familiar Dark coboară în straturile cele mai sărace ale societății americane. Este o evoluție către un realism social brutal, unde linia dintre victimă și agresor devine aproape invizibilă. Tensiunea este constantă, iar finalul oferă o rezolvare pe cât de sumbră, pe atât de satisfăcătoare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781529368116
ISBN-10: 1529368111
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Hodder Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută un roman polițist lipsit de sclipiciul thrillerelor urbane. Este o poveste despre sacrificiu și instinct matern dus la extrem. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă crudă asupra Americii rurale, departe de rutele turistice. Dacă apreciați proza care nu se teme de întuneric și personaje feminine complexe, care refuză rolul de victimă, The Familiar Dark este alegerea ideală.

Despre autor

Amy Engel este o fostă avocată de apărare penală, profesie care i-a oferit o perspectivă unică asupra psihologiei umane și a sistemului de justiție. Locuiește în Missouri, chiar în inima regiunii despre care scrie cu atâta acuratețe. Debutul său pentru adulți, The Roanoke Girls, a fost un succes internațional, devenind bestseller #1 și fiind selectat în prestigiosul club de carte Richard & Judy. Engel a scris și literatură pentru tineri, precum seria The Book of Ivy, demonstrând o versatilitate remarcabilă în a explora temele pierderii, vinovăției și supraviețuirii în circumstanțe extreme.

Descriere

'A high quality, sharply written thriller whose motley cast of deviants and misfits delivers some breathtaking twists on the way to a bleak but very satisfying conclusion. This is the reality of motherhood - red in tooth and claw' Sarah J Naughton, bestselling author of The Festival

'An achingly raw, emotional story that was beautifully written. From the heartbreaking beginning to the shocking conclusion, it was a journey so powerful that it'll stay with me for a long time to come' Alice Hunter, bestselling author of The Serial Killer's Wife

'Raw, powerful, beautiful - devastatingly good' TM Logan, bestselling author of The Holiday

'Beautiful and harrowing and everything in between' Chris Whitaker, award-winning author of We Begin at the End

Sometimes it's better not to ask questions. Sometimes it's better not to know.

Eve Taggert's life has been spent steadily climbing away from her roots. Her mother, a hard and cruel woman who dragged her up in a rundown trailer park, was not who she wanted to be to her own daughter, Junie.

But 12-year old Junie is now dead. Found next to the body of her best friend in the park of their small, broken town. Eve has nothing left but who she used to be.

Despite the corrupt police force that patrol her dirt-poor town deep in the Missouri Ozarks, Eve is going to find what happened to her daughter. Even if it means using her own mother's cruel brand of strength to unearth secrets that don't want to be discovered and face truths it might be better not to know.

Everyone is a suspect.

Everyone has something to hide.

And someone will answer for her daughter's murder.

From the bestselling author of The Roanoke Girls, The Familiar Dark is a spellbinding story about the bonds of family as well as a story about how even the darkest and most terrifying of places can provide the comfort of home. The Familiar Dark will blow you away.

PRAISE FOR THE FAMILIAR DARK

'Dark and beautifully written. Spellbinding' Catherine Steadman, bestselling author of Something in the Water

'Absolutely bloody brilliant. It's so well-written I felt like I was living her pain' Fiona Cummins, award-winning author of The Neighbour

'Dark, moving, intriguing. Truly inspiring' Susan Lewis, bestselling author of One Minute Later

'Powerful, gripping, heart-stopping' Laura McHugh, award-winning author of The Wolf Wants In

'From its gripping beginning to its sobering finale, Amy Engel's The Familiar Dark never fails to enthral with surprising twists' Daily Mail

'This is fierce and brilliant' The Observer

Recenzii

A dark and beautifully written thriller with a haunting ending that will stay with you long after you've turned the last page. Engel's ability to conjure the harsh beauty of the Ozarks is spellbinding. An emotional & powerful read
Absolutely bloody brilliant. A down-at-heel mother burns with a need to exact her own brand of justice after the murder of her 12-year-old daughter. It's so well-written I felt like I was living her pain. Very highly recommended.
I was completely enthralled from start to finish. Very dark, moving, intriguing and such compelling characters. What a fantastic writer Amy is. Truly inspiring; a real talent at work and I hope this book receives all the success it deserves
I'm such a HUGE Roanoke fan so my hopes were sky high and it delivered in every possible way. As visceral as it is gripping, the story packs the kind of haunting gut-punch that Amy is so good at. It's just beautiful and harrowing and everything in between.
The Familiar Dark is full of very bad people who occasionally do the right thing and seemingly good people who hide their own demons, every nuance of human nature is here wrapped up in a hugely addictive piece of storytelling. The end, when it comes, is extraordinarily horrific in its reality and leaves you melancholy and full of feeling. This was brilliant. All the way. Don't miss it in 2020.
A harrowing thriller . . . This rural noir stakes Engel's claim to that dystopian terrain somewhere between Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects and Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone
This is fierce and brilliant
From its gripping beginning to its sobering finale, Amy Engel's The Familiar Dark never fails to enthral with surprising twists . . . a perceptive story about women surviving against odds, a mother´s unconditional love, as well as grief, poverty and classism . . . Engel´s characters would have much in common with those in Gillian Flynn´s Sharp Objects
Raw, powerful, beautiful - devastatingly good
Powerful, gripping, heart-stopping
This rural noir is full of twists and turns . . . Gripping and hard to put down
A story about grief, pretence and family, written by a former criminal defence lawyer, it tugs at the heartstrings with its raw emotional truth
icily heartbreaking
Engel's prose is sharp and often brutal, and result is a seriously impressive thriller
I enjoyed it so much. A high quality, sharply written thriller whose motley cast of deviants and misfits delivers some breathtaking twists on the way to a bleak but very satisfying conclusion. This is the reality of motherhood - red in tooth and claw.
An achingly raw, emotional story that was beautifully written. From the heartbreaking beginning to the shocking conclusion, it was a journey so powerful that it'll stay with me for a long time to come