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The Good Son

Autor You-jeong Jeong
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2019

Reținem, de la primele rânduri, o structură narativă claustrofobică, centrată pe perspectiva unui narator nesigur. Yu-jin se trezește acoperit de sânge. Jos, mama lui zace moartă. Memoria îi este un vid. Tensiunea se acumulează rapid. Nu există timp pentru introspecție lentă. Urmează o cursă contracronometru pentru a ascunde dovezile și a găsi un presupus criminal. Notăm cu interes cum The Good Son transformă o premisă domestică într-un studiu întunecat al minții umane. Forța narativă a lui You-jeong Jeong combinată cu sensibilitatea lui Kim Lock în The Good Mother — dar cu un glas propriu, mult mai brutal. Este o incursiune în psihologia răului, inspirată de fapte reale. Merită menționat că această lucrare consolidează temele explorate de autoare în Seven Years of Darkness: vinovăția, secretele de familie și consecințele devastatoare ale controlului. Dacă în lucrările anterioare accentul cădea pe jocul de-a șoarecele și pisica între bărbați cu secrete, aici focalizarea este intimă, sângeroasă și profund tulburătoare. Traducerea din limba coreeană păstrează un ritm alert, tăios, care nu lasă cititorului nicio zonă de confort. Descoperim un oraș sud-coreean unde disparițiile tinerelor femei trezesc fantomele tatălui și fratelui lui Yu-jin. Este un roman polițist care refuză convențiile clasice, preferând o explorare viscerală a condiției umane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780349142937
ISBN-10: 0349142939
Pagini: 309
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Pentru cititorii care caută thrillere psihologice intense, departe de tiparele occidentale. The Good Son oferă o perspectivă unică asupra traumei și moralității, fiind scrisă de vocea numărul unu a genului din Coreea de Sud. Veți câștiga o experiență de lectură inconfortabilă, dar fascinantă, care analizează cât de bine ne cunoaștem propria natură atunci când suntem puși în fața unei atrocități.


Descriere

'For fans of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith' A. J. Finn, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

YOU WAKE UP COVERED IN BLOOD
THERE'S A BODY DOWNSTAIRS
YOUR MOTHER'S BODY

YOU DIDN'T DO IT. DID YOU?
HOW COULD YOU, YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN THE GOOD SON

THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION FROM KOREA'S MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR YOU-JEONG JEONG.

When Yu-jin wakes up covered in blood, and finds the body of his mother downstairs, he decides to hide the evidence and pursue the killer himself.

Then young women start disappearing in his South Korean town. Who is he hunting? And why does the answer take him back to his brother and father who lost their lives many years ago.

The Good Son is inspired by a true story.


Recenzii

An intense, creepy, darkly funny read . . . a book focusing on the claustrophobic dynamics of a mother-son relationship that makes Mrs Bates and her son Norman look well-adjusted
A cool, crafty did-he-do-it thriller buoyed by a rising tide of madness. Provocative yet profound, humming with mood and menace, The Good Son will rivet readers of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith
Rightly compared to Stephen King
The queen of crime . . . You-jeong Jeong is shaking up the world of suspense with her particularly well-executed thrillers
Readers will be relieved that this is fiction, not real life. This book will pull you in; as you devour it, you might perhaps resent the author's relentless pursuit of the evil coiled within humans. But this, too, is human
Gripping and often gruesome . . . a disturbing story of the events that unfold after Yu-jin, 26, wakes up to find his mother in a pool of blood (we did warn you)
Jeong expertly inches up the tension in this crafty, creepy story of a psychopath's coming-of-age
Ingeniously twisted
Want to read an under-the-radar psychological thriller? Feel smug about pocketing The Good Son
A slow-burn psychological thriller with plenty of twists and things to think about
The gore is intense, but the psychological terror might never wash off
Absorbing . . . An unlikely thriller that we continue to read - thanks to Ms. Jeong's controlled prose . . . with a sickened sort of fascination. It's a testament to the author's skill and seriousness of purpose that she maintains suspense about her inhuman-seeming protagonist's fate until the bitter end
[You-jeong Jeong is] South Korea's Patricia Highsmith, able to convey the internal and manipulative logic of even the most disturbed minds, while spritzing her tales with commentary on the isolation that comes with modern prosperity
Dark, harrowing, horribly claustrophobic but hard to put down . . . You-jeong Jeong's novel speaks for a facet of the human condition that is more prevalent than we like to think
That night, when I started to follow the woman with the sparkling ring, I finally found a clue to unravelling the mystery. I suddenly realised what I was attracted to. I was attracted to someone feeling afraid.


Yu-jin is a model student, a successful athlete and a good son. But one day he wakes up covered in blood. There is no sign of a break-in and there is a body downstairs. It is the body of someone he knows all too well . . .


Yu-jin struggles to piece together fragments of what he can remember from the night before. He suffers from seizures and blackouts. He knows he will be accused if he reports the body, but what to do instead? Faced with an unthinkable choice, Yu-jin makes an unthinkable decision.


'INGENIOUSLY TWISTED' Entertainment Weekly


'GRIPPING' Cosmopolitan


'INTENSE' Telegraph