The Night Guest
Autor Fiona McFarlaneen Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2014
Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. This woman Frida claims to be a care worker sent by the government. Ruth lets her in.
Now that Frida is in her house, is Ruth right to fear the tiger she hears on the prowl at night, far from its jungle habitat? Why do memories of childhood in Fiji press upon her with increasing urgency? How far can she trust this mysterious woman, Frida, who seems to carry with her own troubled past? And how far can Ruth trust herself?
"The Night Guest," Fiona McFarlane's hypnotic first novel, is no simple tale of a crime committed and a mystery solved. This is a tale that soars above its own suspense to tell us, with exceptional grace and beauty, about ageing, love, trust, dependence, and fear; about processes of colonization; and about things (and people) in places they shouldn't be. Here is a new writer who comes to us fully formed, working wonders with language, renewing our faith in the power of fiction to describe the mysterious workings of our minds.
A "Kirkus Reviews "Best Fiction Book of 2013"
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780865478169
ISBN-10: 0865478163
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 137 x 206 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-10: 0865478163
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 137 x 206 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Descriere
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'A must read' - Independent on Sunday
'Astonishingly brilliant . . . it's still with me' - Evie Wyld, author of The Bass Rock
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award
Shortlisted for the Stella Prize
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award
In an isolated house on the New South Wales coast, Ruth, a widow whose sons have flown the nest, lives alone. Until one day a stranger bowls up, announcing that she's Frida, sent to be Ruth's carer.
At first, Ruth welcomes Frida's vigorous presence and her willingness to hear Ruth's tales of growing up in Fiji. She even helps reunite Ruth with a childhood sweetheart. But why does Ruth sense a tiger prowling through the house at night? Is she losing her wits? Can she trust the enigmatic Frida? And how far can she trust herself?
Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
Winner of the inaugural Voss Literary Prize
Joint winner of the Barbara Jefferis Award
'A must read' - Independent on Sunday
'Astonishingly brilliant . . . it's still with me' - Evie Wyld, author of The Bass Rock
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award
Shortlisted for the Stella Prize
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award
In an isolated house on the New South Wales coast, Ruth, a widow whose sons have flown the nest, lives alone. Until one day a stranger bowls up, announcing that she's Frida, sent to be Ruth's carer.
At first, Ruth welcomes Frida's vigorous presence and her willingness to hear Ruth's tales of growing up in Fiji. She even helps reunite Ruth with a childhood sweetheart. But why does Ruth sense a tiger prowling through the house at night? Is she losing her wits? Can she trust the enigmatic Frida? And how far can she trust herself?
Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
Winner of the inaugural Voss Literary Prize
Joint winner of the Barbara Jefferis Award
Recenzii
This debut novel stands out among the year's strongest so far, with its delicately told story of two women whose lives temporarily entwine: one an ageing widow, the other a larger-than-life carer who inveigles herself into the widow's emotional life - and home. Its cool, controlled prose explores the intersections between dementia, unreliable narration, and elderly exploitation, regarding loss, ageing and racial tension without a hint of cliché. And it's a tension-filled psychological thriller to boot, all inspiring the use of that overused phrase 'a must read'
Horribly believable, The Night Guest is an impressive debut novel that sustains the tense unravelling of its mystery
This psychological thriller feels uneasily close to the realities many families face . . . What's real and what's imagined are terrifyingly difficult to distinguish. It's surreal and menacing
A witty, poetic psychological thriller in which the reader becomes so firmly embedded in Ruth's mind that one cannot help but sympathise with her confusion
A powerfully distinctive narrative about identity and memory, the weight of life and the approach of death
Beautifully written and psychologically tense . . . extraordinarily accomplished
[A] glittering debut . . . The Night Guest's precise and elegant prose has been praised . . . but what really stands out is its portrayal of one life lived, told with a fullness that is reminiscent of another masterful antipodean novel - Emily Perkins's The Forrests. What is most tenderly depicted is Ruth's backward reflection on her life choices - her marriage, unfulfilled romances, her role as wife and mother
McFarlane exploits the vulnerably blurry boundaries of memory here to create a subtle and beguiling crescendo of suspense. Facts shift like the dunes beyond the back door. A limpid, beautiful novel
A sensitive exploration of the workings of time and memory, by turns joyful and sad, and sustained throughout by clear and delicate prose . . . Ruth's viewpoint delivers tremendous insight and empathy . . . The Night Guest is a wonderfully evoked portrait of old age that disturbs and elevates in equal measure. The symbolic tiger, frightening, untameable, but awe-inspiring, is an important aspect of its power
Like a Hitchcock film, this psychological study of manipulation is poetically tense. This is a seriously creepy read . . . A wonderfully devious novel that will leave you feeling slightly unnerved
The Night Guest is as moving as it is unsettling and suspenseful, thanks to the way Fiona McFarlane sensitively portrays elderly widow Ruth's struggles to cope on her own
I absolutely loved it, one of the best books, never mind debuts, I've read in a very long time. Astonishingly brilliant, I read it a month ago and it's still with me
An extraordinary book in which the heroine, Ruth, not yet aware that isolation is a dangerous luxury, exchanges the world's turmoil for silence, in the hope that the essence of things will reveal a small part of its mystery. It is deeply disturbing, and exquisitely written - full of joy and melancholy - and I willingly accept that I will be haunted by its beauty and its truths for a long time to come. The story is told with a certain inevitability, yet at the same time, it surprises, confounds, and torments. It can't be! I kept thinking, when all the while, I knew, of course, that it was just what I feared - a rapturous, fearsome fable of grief and love
The Night Guest is such an accomplished and polished debut. There's a delicacy and poignancy to the writing, combined with almost unbearable suspense. I love books in which I have no idea what's going to happen next!
A gripping new thriller that plays on the fears of old age and isolation
Sometimes a debut novel burns brighter than the rest, and offers up the promise of literary greatness. The Night Guest is one of these books. Through impeccable narrative control and deft manipulation of the reader's experience, McFarlane opens Ruth's mind to us, leads us into this foreign world, and makes us feel Ruth's terrifying, infuriating disorientation. In doing so, she achieves that great object of fiction - empathy, compassion for a different human life. The Night Guest is an important and exciting first novel by an Australian writer of rare talent. Or, as we might say down under: "a bloody good read."
An enrapturing debut novel that toys with magical realism while delivering a fresh fable . . . McFarlane's rendering of Ruth's interior is quiet and exacting, and she builds suspense so gently that the danger is, at first, hardly noticeable . . . A pleasurable novel, with turns of plot and phrase both startling and elegant
An extraordinary novel. At once a tender thriller and an exquisitely constructed meditation on time and memory, it is propelled by sentence after sentence of masterful prose. With The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane announces herself as a writer to be read, admired, and read again
Rich and suspenseful . . . This book is at once a beautifully imagined portrait of isolation and an unsettling psychological thriller
Gothic in sensibility, with a touch of magic realism, this novel feels at once like a classic and a fresh, original tale
An enthralling psychological thriller in which every gesture and detail is loaded with meaning. This stellar debut will haunt you - and remind you to call your mother
McFarlane's pitch-perfect narration gives us a marvelous window into Ruth . . . The Night Guest is a stellar debut, a master class in narrative skill and a beautiful character portrait
Impressive . . . McFarlane is in complete control . . . dotting her narrative with careful, cumulative details like a pointillist painter . . . There's precision in her choice of words and their sense of anticipation dangles the reader over the lip of every page . . . [The novel] is a clear sighted and compelling exploration of the metaphors and realities of ageing with all its anxiety and wobbly paranoia, and you love Ruth as you travel with her to the book's end and the dreadful pragmatism of familial grief
An assured, elegiac first novel . . . McFarlane gives an uncanny sense of Ruth's onset of dementia . . . An exceptional debut by a writer of great talent
Haunting . . . When I finished the novel I was taken by [McFarlane's] skill. Now I'm mesmerised by it . . . While McFarlane pulls the most stirring emotional strings with ease, she tells a poignant, unsettlingly beautiful story that still keeps me up at night
[A] quiet, unnerving and beautiful first novel . . . The Night Guest is a debut of uncommon assurance . . . It seems to rise above the shiny trivia of the last decade's novels . . . and do what serious fiction can: leave you more interested in the world, more conscious of its enigmas of love and memory, than you were before you read it.
Is reality something which exists independent of us in the world, or that which we create in the prisms of our minds? The Night Guest is a beautifully textured novel built around this basic philosophical question. It is a book which reads like a psychological thriller but in the end transcends that category to be a portrait of the isolation, but also the sense of revelation that can accompany old age
Horribly believable, The Night Guest is an impressive debut novel that sustains the tense unravelling of its mystery
This psychological thriller feels uneasily close to the realities many families face . . . What's real and what's imagined are terrifyingly difficult to distinguish. It's surreal and menacing
A witty, poetic psychological thriller in which the reader becomes so firmly embedded in Ruth's mind that one cannot help but sympathise with her confusion
A powerfully distinctive narrative about identity and memory, the weight of life and the approach of death
Beautifully written and psychologically tense . . . extraordinarily accomplished
[A] glittering debut . . . The Night Guest's precise and elegant prose has been praised . . . but what really stands out is its portrayal of one life lived, told with a fullness that is reminiscent of another masterful antipodean novel - Emily Perkins's The Forrests. What is most tenderly depicted is Ruth's backward reflection on her life choices - her marriage, unfulfilled romances, her role as wife and mother
McFarlane exploits the vulnerably blurry boundaries of memory here to create a subtle and beguiling crescendo of suspense. Facts shift like the dunes beyond the back door. A limpid, beautiful novel
A sensitive exploration of the workings of time and memory, by turns joyful and sad, and sustained throughout by clear and delicate prose . . . Ruth's viewpoint delivers tremendous insight and empathy . . . The Night Guest is a wonderfully evoked portrait of old age that disturbs and elevates in equal measure. The symbolic tiger, frightening, untameable, but awe-inspiring, is an important aspect of its power
Like a Hitchcock film, this psychological study of manipulation is poetically tense. This is a seriously creepy read . . . A wonderfully devious novel that will leave you feeling slightly unnerved
The Night Guest is as moving as it is unsettling and suspenseful, thanks to the way Fiona McFarlane sensitively portrays elderly widow Ruth's struggles to cope on her own
I absolutely loved it, one of the best books, never mind debuts, I've read in a very long time. Astonishingly brilliant, I read it a month ago and it's still with me
An extraordinary book in which the heroine, Ruth, not yet aware that isolation is a dangerous luxury, exchanges the world's turmoil for silence, in the hope that the essence of things will reveal a small part of its mystery. It is deeply disturbing, and exquisitely written - full of joy and melancholy - and I willingly accept that I will be haunted by its beauty and its truths for a long time to come. The story is told with a certain inevitability, yet at the same time, it surprises, confounds, and torments. It can't be! I kept thinking, when all the while, I knew, of course, that it was just what I feared - a rapturous, fearsome fable of grief and love
The Night Guest is such an accomplished and polished debut. There's a delicacy and poignancy to the writing, combined with almost unbearable suspense. I love books in which I have no idea what's going to happen next!
A gripping new thriller that plays on the fears of old age and isolation
Sometimes a debut novel burns brighter than the rest, and offers up the promise of literary greatness. The Night Guest is one of these books. Through impeccable narrative control and deft manipulation of the reader's experience, McFarlane opens Ruth's mind to us, leads us into this foreign world, and makes us feel Ruth's terrifying, infuriating disorientation. In doing so, she achieves that great object of fiction - empathy, compassion for a different human life. The Night Guest is an important and exciting first novel by an Australian writer of rare talent. Or, as we might say down under: "a bloody good read."
An enrapturing debut novel that toys with magical realism while delivering a fresh fable . . . McFarlane's rendering of Ruth's interior is quiet and exacting, and she builds suspense so gently that the danger is, at first, hardly noticeable . . . A pleasurable novel, with turns of plot and phrase both startling and elegant
An extraordinary novel. At once a tender thriller and an exquisitely constructed meditation on time and memory, it is propelled by sentence after sentence of masterful prose. With The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane announces herself as a writer to be read, admired, and read again
Rich and suspenseful . . . This book is at once a beautifully imagined portrait of isolation and an unsettling psychological thriller
Gothic in sensibility, with a touch of magic realism, this novel feels at once like a classic and a fresh, original tale
An enthralling psychological thriller in which every gesture and detail is loaded with meaning. This stellar debut will haunt you - and remind you to call your mother
McFarlane's pitch-perfect narration gives us a marvelous window into Ruth . . . The Night Guest is a stellar debut, a master class in narrative skill and a beautiful character portrait
Impressive . . . McFarlane is in complete control . . . dotting her narrative with careful, cumulative details like a pointillist painter . . . There's precision in her choice of words and their sense of anticipation dangles the reader over the lip of every page . . . [The novel] is a clear sighted and compelling exploration of the metaphors and realities of ageing with all its anxiety and wobbly paranoia, and you love Ruth as you travel with her to the book's end and the dreadful pragmatism of familial grief
An assured, elegiac first novel . . . McFarlane gives an uncanny sense of Ruth's onset of dementia . . . An exceptional debut by a writer of great talent
Haunting . . . When I finished the novel I was taken by [McFarlane's] skill. Now I'm mesmerised by it . . . While McFarlane pulls the most stirring emotional strings with ease, she tells a poignant, unsettlingly beautiful story that still keeps me up at night
[A] quiet, unnerving and beautiful first novel . . . The Night Guest is a debut of uncommon assurance . . . It seems to rise above the shiny trivia of the last decade's novels . . . and do what serious fiction can: leave you more interested in the world, more conscious of its enigmas of love and memory, than you were before you read it.
Is reality something which exists independent of us in the world, or that which we create in the prisms of our minds? The Night Guest is a beautifully textured novel built around this basic philosophical question. It is a book which reads like a psychological thriller but in the end transcends that category to be a portrait of the isolation, but also the sense of revelation that can accompany old age