The Incendiaries
Autor R. O. Kwonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iul 2019
Imaginea de deschidere ne așază în centrul unei întâlniri aparent banale în campusul Universității Edwards: Phoebe Lin, o tânără strălucitoare dar bântuită de vinovăția morții mamei sale, și Will Kendall, un student sosit prin transfer de la un colegiu biblic, încercând să se lepede de o credință care l-a lăsat gol pe dinăuntru. Găsim în această carte, The Incendiaries, nu doar o poveste de dragoste universitară, ci o analiză tăioasă a modului în care nevoia de apartenență poate fi modelată în ceva violent. R. O. Kwon construiește o narațiune fragmentată și intensă, unde limbajul are o eleganță sălbatică, reflectând fragilitatea psihologică a personajelor sale. Cine a citit These Violent Delights de Micah Nemerever va recunoaște aici dinamica periculoasă a unei obsesii între doi studenți cu trecuturi tulburi, însă The Incendiaries se distinge prin dimensiunea sa spirituală și politică — legătura neașteptată cu un cult extremist ce vizează Coreea de Nord. Putem afirma că forța romanului rezidă în modul în care autoarea tratează radicalizarea nu ca pe un fenomen abstract, ci ca pe o consecință intimă a doliului și a lipsei de sens. Spre deosebire de explorările dorinței din lucrarea sa ulterioară, Exhibit, acest debut se concentrează pe mecanismele credinței pierdute și regăsite sub forme distructive. Este un text despre cum iubirea poate deveni o formă de supraveghere și despre cât de departe poate merge cineva pentru a umple un gol interior lăsat de absența divinității sau a familiei.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0349011885
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o proză stilizată și densă, ce amintește de atmosfera din „Istoria secretă”. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei interesați de psihologia cultelor și de modul în care ideologiile extremiste prind rădăcini în minți vulnerabile. Câștigi o perspectivă nuanțată asupra fragilității umane, totul sub forma unui roman polițist atipic, marcat de o tensiune mocnită și de o scriitură de o frumusețe tăioasă.
Despre autor
R. O. Kwon este o voce proeminentă a literaturii contemporane americane, apreciată pentru stilul său incisiv și explorarea temelor legate de identitate, credință și dorință. Debutul său, The Incendiaries, a fost primit cu entuziasm de critici, fiind comparat cu lucrările Donnei Tartt pentru profunzimea psihologică și atmosfera academică. Ulterior, autoarea a continuat să exploreze limitele libertății personale și ale senzualității în romanul Exhibit. Scrierile sale se remarcă printr-o precizie aproape chirurgicală a limbajului, reușind să transforme experiențe interioare complexe în narațiuni de o intensitate electrică.
Descriere
'A major talent' Financial Times
'Reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History' New Yorker
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall fall in love at university.
Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death.
Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers from Bible college.
But a charismatic former student draws Phoebe into his cult - an extremist group with secretive ties to North Korea. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith, killing five people, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her, tilting into obsession himself, discovering how far we can go when we lose what we love.
'An important new writer' The Times
'R. O. Kwon is the real deal' Lauren Groff
Recenzii
The Incendiaries is a book of careful feints - the emphases in the story never fall where you expect, but Kwon is always in total control . . . a startlingly assured book by an important new writer
A pulsating, hypnotic debut novel . . . Kwon's subject is not so much love and betrayal - though both forces are
presented as elementally destructive - as the power of religion, and the grieving that engulfs those
who lose faith. She understands what a believer will do to retain her sense of belonging, to never be
lonely again . . . The Incendiaries packs a disruptive charge, and introduces RO Kwon as a major talent
What an intriguing novel. Told in spare, revealing prose from the three central characters' points of view, it makes the reader look again at faith, fanaticism and identity
The debut novel from the Korean-American writer RO Kwon starts with a bomb attack carried out by an
extremist Christian cult. Will Kendall knows his former girlfriend, Phoebe Lin, was one of the perpetrators; what plays out in this short, sharp tale is the story of why . . . When Phoebe is approached by John Leal, a barefoot preacher who claims to have been a prisoner in a North Korean gulag, she believes he offers the purpose and discipline she has lost. But Will, struggling to come to terms with the loss of his Christian faith, sees through Leal. This triumvirate of flawed characters share the narrative focus as events spiral towards their bloody denouement -
and Kwon's spare, scalpel-like writing makes Phoebe's tumble into Leal's crazed vision utterly convincing
R. O. Kwon's characters leave you unsure of where reality stands in a narrative that is beautifully disorienting. As each retreats further into their own mind, the language becomes more jarring, and the logic harder to follow, in a way that mimics the real-life terror of obsession
A swift, sensual novel about the unraveling of a collegiate relationship and its aftermath. Kwon writes gracefully about the spiritual insecurities of millennials
An impressive, assured debut about the hope for personal and political revolution and all the unexpected ways it flickers out. Kwon has vital things to say about the fraught times we live in
Religion, politics and love collide in this slim but powerful novel reminiscent of Donna Tart's The Secret History, with menace and mystery lurking in every corner
Every explosive requires a fuse. That's R. O. Kwon's novel, a straight, slow-burning fuse. To read her novel is to follow an inexorable flame coming closer and closer to the object it will detonate-the characters, the crime, the story, and, ultimately, the reader
The Incendiaries is a God-haunted, willful, strange book written with a kind of savage elegance. I've said it before, but now I'll shout it from the rooftops: R. O. Kwon is the real deal
The Incendiaries probes the seductive and dangerous places to which we drift when loss unmoors us. In dazzlingly acrobatic prose, R. O. Kwon explores the lines between faith and fanaticism, passion and violence, the rational and the unknowable
Radiant . . . a dark, absorbing story of how first love can be as intoxicating and dangerous as religious fundamentalism . . .
This debut novel is absolutely electric, something new in the firmament. Everyone should read this book
Faith and its furies lie at the heart of The Incendiaries, R. O. Kwon's disarmingly propulsive debut . . . It's a combustive tale about the human compulsion to latch onto something bigger than ourselves, no matter the cost
A stunning debut, The Incendiaries is a story of interpersonal and religious devotion . . . It's a discomforting yet thoroughly engrossing read about processing trauma and changing ideals at the precipice of adulthood and the overwhelming power of conviction. After this impressive introduction of her work to the world, we're excited to see where Kwon takes us in the future
The Incendiaries is the most buzzed about debut of the summer, as it should be . . . [it] is a sharp, little novel as hard to ignore as a splinter in your eye . . . In a nation still so haunted by the divine promise, on the cusp of ever-more contentious debates about abortion and other intrinsically spiritual issues, The Incendiaries arrives at precisely the right moment
A classic love triangle between two tormented college students and God. The Incendiaries brings us, page by page, from quiet reckonings with shame and intimacy to a violent, grand tragedy. In a conflagration of lyrical prose, R. O. Kwon skillfully evokes the inherent extremism of young love
An exquisitely written novel about love, loss and faith taken to extremes
'A God-haunted, willful, strange book written with a kind of savage elegance. I've said it before, but now I'll shout it from the rooftops: R. O. Kwon is the real deal' Lauren Groff
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transferred from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe.
Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult tied to North Korea, founded by a charismatic former student with an enigmatic past. When the group commits violent acts in the name of faith, Will finds himself struggling to confront a new version of the fanaticism he's worked so hard to escape. Haunting and powerful, The Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant look at the mind of extremists.
'Kwon is always in total control . . . a startlingly assured book by an important new writer' Guardian
'A pulsating, hypnotic debut novel . . . packs a disruptive charge, and introduces RO Kwon as a major talent' Financial Times
'Spare, scalpel-like writing . . . utterly convincing' The Times
'A stunning debut' Marie Clare
'Impressive, assured . . . Kwon has viral things to say' Jenny Offill