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The Uninvited Guests de Sadie Jones

The Uninvited Guests

Autor Sadie Jones
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 feb 2013

Găsim în paginile acestui roman o structură narativă care se metamorfozează subtil sub ochii noștri: ceea ce începe ca o cronică de familie așezată, amintind de rigoarea socială din începutul secolului XX, glisează treptat spre o tragi-comedie de erori cu valențe shakespeariene. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Sadie Jones folosește spațiul închis al unui conac rural pentru a orchestra o zi aparent banală, care este aruncată în haos de sosirea neașteptată a supraviețuitorilor unui accident de tren. Putem afirma că forța cărții rezidă în ritmul în care măștile sociale cad, lăsând la vedere un substrat uman mult mai întunecat și instinctual. Dacă The Paying Guests de Sarah Waters v-a captivat prin modul în care tensiunea domestică și schimbările sociale explodează în pasiune și dramă într-o vilă londoneză, această carte extinde experiența în direcția suprarealismului, unde limitele dintre ospitalitate și supraviețuire devin tulburător de fragile. The Uninvited Guests se poziționează în opera autoarei ca o explorare a vulnerabilității umane în fața imprevizibilului, continuând interesul pentru destinele fracturate pe care l-am observat în The Outcast sau în tensiunile morale din Small Wars. Stilul este unul efervescent, dar sobru, păstrând o distanță observațională care accentuează absurdul situațiilor în care sunt puse aceste personaje excentrice și, în final, profund umane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780099563693
ISBN-10: 009956369X
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază atmosfera conacelor englezești, dar caută ceva mai mult decât o simplă dramă istorică. Este o lectură despre fragilitatea convențiilor sociale, oferind un amestec rar de umor negru și suspans psihologic. Veți câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra modului în care o criză externă poate demonta ierarhiile și certitudinile unei lumi care se crede imuabilă.

Despre autor

Sadie Jones este o scriitoare britanică contemporană de succes, stabilită la Londra, recunoscută pentru capacitatea de a radiografia tensiunile ascunse ale societății engleze. Debutul său, The Outcast, a fost recompensat cu prestigiosul premiu Costa First Novel Award și a fost finalist pentru Orange Prize for Fiction. În lucrările sale ulterioare, precum Small Wars, o poveste despre onoare și conflict în Cipru, sau The Snakes, Jones a continuat să exploreze teme legate de familie, traume și moralitate. The Uninvited Guests îi confirmă talentul de a naviga între genuri literare, fiind apreciată de critici și scriitori deopotrivă pentru energia sa narativă.

Descriere scurtă

It is the eve of Emerald Torrington's birthday. The cake is iced, and the house gleams invitingly, but before the first dish can be served, a mysterious group of strangers arrives at the door. The Torringtons welcome them in, but as night falls, the family begins to wonder if there is something malevolent in their home. This is a sinister tale of haunting beauty from the author of THE OUTCAST.

Descriere

It is the eve of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday and the family has assembled at Sterne, the once grand, now crumbling, family seat.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor—and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief.
Evening turns to stormy night, and a most unpleasant parlor game threatens to blow respectability to smithereens: Smudge Torrington, the wayward youngest daughter of the house, decides that this is the perfect moment for her Great Undertaking.
The Uninvited Guests is the bewitching new novel from the critically acclaimed Sadie Jones. The prizewinning author triumphs in this frightening yet delicious drama of dark surprises—where social codes are uprooted and desire daringly trumps propriety—and all is alight with Edwardian wit and opulence.

Recenzii

“A comedy of manners that turns downright surreal…Jones’s effervescent writing keeps the course steady-even as her characters shed their civilized veneers.” — Ellen Shapiro, People Four Star Review
“Entertaining…Jones is a writer of admirable narrative energy…with a painfully accurate, almost Stoppardian ear for dialogue and a delightful streak of cruelty that flirts with…the gothic.” — Lev Grossman, Time Magazine
“The Uninvited Guests is at once a shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class. It is so well-written, so intricately plotted, that every page delivers some new astonishment. It is a brilliant novel.” — Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder
“What opens as an amusing Edwardian country house tale soon becomes a sinister tragi-comedy of errors, in which the dark underbelly of human nature is revealed in true Shakespearean fashion. Sadie Jones is a most talented and imaginative storyteller, and The Uninvited Guests a very clever novel.” — Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times Bestselling author of ELEGY FOR EDDIE
“Vividly atmospheric…niftily deceptive…a story of shattered snobbery, transformation of character and in the end a surprising and eerily beautiful portrait of compassion…A sublimely clever book.” — Mary Pols, San Francisco Chronicle
“Delicious…comparisons with Downton Abbey will be both inevitable and fair.” — Wall Street Journal
“…THE UNINVITED GUESTS…defied my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.” — Maile Meloy, Nationally Bestselling Author of BOTH WAYS IS THE ONLY WAY I WANT IT
“What a delicious read! Like something written by a wicked Jane Austen,…I was captivated by its madcap nature and then, unprepared for the strange fruit that the story became.” — Sarah Blake, New York Times Bestselling Author of THE POSTMISTRESS
“What opens as an amusing Edwardian country house tale soon becomes a sinister tragi-comedy of errors…in true Shakespearean fashion. Sadie Jones is a most talented and imaginative storyteller.” — Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times Bestselling Author of ELEGY FOR EDDIE
“A remarkable dark comedy...Jones’s characters are delightfully eccentric, the wit delightfully droll, and the prose simply delightful. But for all its charm, this is a serious book…” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A delightful, eerie novel…Jones expertly balances the whimsical and the strange, building things to a climax of abandon, terror and restitution…Engrossing, enjoyable.” — Philip Womack, Telegraph
“Excellent characterization…a plot sprinkled with hints of secrets to be revealed…a page-turning read that blurs the edges of the country house mystery.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“Jones’ clever prose and bright tone heighten her characters and setting…she adroitly draws the layers of character that are exposed as shameful secrets come to light.” — Atlantic Monthly
“Enthralling…An English countryside setting, an ever-twisting plot, and gorgeously precise writing add up to one delightful novel.” — Martha Stewart Whole Living Magazine
“Exhilaratingly strange and darkly funny…veers off in a wildly surprising direction, and the way it plays out is delightful, sexy, moving-even profound…Will haunt you-but happily.” — USA Today
“Delightful and unexpected…These well-imagined characters serve to raise stakes the reader cares about. They move beyond archetypes, becoming something unexpectedly rich and engaging.” — Robin Vivimos, Denver Post
“’Downton Abbey’ takes a turn for the supernatural in Sadie Jones’s stylishly eccentric comedy of manners THE UNINVITED GUESTS...Anglophiles who admire a biting sense of humor and a tinge of the Gothic, pull up a chair.” — Christian Science Monitor
“Ms. Jones’s comedy of manners, which takes place over a single evening in 1912, gleefully exposes the family members’ snobbery… The author can’t resist harassing the Torringtons with the menace in the next room…” — New York Times
“…a delicious romp to read…Jones’ novel is as tightly constructed as one of those elaborate corsets that the Crawley women squeeze into to sashay around the drawing rooms at Downton.” — Maureen Corrigan, NPR
“An enchanted new novel…[with] the sly, subversive dexterity of a Mozart opera or Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’” — Washington Post
“The author’s command of period archness tips its hat to a pantheon of social satirists: Luis Buñuel in cahoots with Oscar Wilde and Jane Austen. Jones’s caustic takedown of 1-percenter exceptionalism arrives like a divine gift to occupying party poopers everywhere.” — New York Times Book Review