Twist
Autor Colum McCannen Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 mar 2025
Putem afirma că Twist se construiește pe o structură narativă ce pendulează între claustrofobia unei nave de reparații submarine și imensitatea oceanului, oglindind dualitatea dintre conexiunea digitală globală și izolarea umană profundă. Colum McCann ne propune o perspectivă inedită prin ochii lui Anthony Fennell, un jurnalist obsedat de infrastructura invizibilă a lumii noastre: fibrele optice de pe fundul mării. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autorul transformă o misiune tehnică de-a lungul coastelor Africii într-o explorare psihologică tensionată, unde ritmul vieții pe mare este întrerupt brutal de ecourile unei tragedii lăsate pe uscat.
Stilul evocativ al lui McCann, deja consacrat prin forța detaliului, capătă aici nuanțe de film noir. Dacă Let the Great World Spin v-a captivat prin modul în care fire narative disparate se intersectează deasupra New York-ului, această carte extinde experiența în direcția unei fragilități elementare, unde siguranța tehnologică se lovește de imprevizibilul naturii umane. De asemenea, spre deosebire de explorarea istorică din TransAtlantic, Twist se ancorează în prezentul nostru hiper-conectat, dar păstrează acea preocupare constantă a autorului pentru personajele aflate la marginea societății sau în situații limită, temă recurentă încă de la debutul său în Fishing the Sloe-Black River. Putem observa o maturitate stilistică ce transformă dispariția căpitanului Conway dintr-un simplu element de thriller într-o meditație despre adevăr și reparație morală.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0593241738
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 158 x 238 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Random House
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o proză densă, în care suspansul nu vine din artificii narative, ci din profunzimea caracterelor. Veți câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra modului în care fragilitatea noastră fizică este legată de infrastructura globală. Este un roman ideal pentru cei care apreciază literatura care pune întrebări incomode despre conexiune și pierdere într-o lume în care totul pare, teoretic, la un click distanță.
Despre autor
Colum McCann este unul dintre cei mai apreciați scriitori contemporani, fiind distins cu National Book Award pentru romanul Let the Great World Spin și nominalizat pe lista lungă a Booker Prize pentru TransAtlantic și Apeirogon. Născut în Irlanda și stabilit la New York, McCann este recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a împleti fapte istorice cu destine individuale, opera sa fiind tradusă în peste patruzeci de limbi. În Twist, el își confirmă statutul de maestru al narațiunilor complexe, explorând de această dată temele modernității și ale izolării.
Descriere
A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction - from the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin
**The instant Irish Times top 5 bestseller**
**Named a 2025 book to look out for by the Observer, Financial Times, Irish Times and New European**
'Urgent and utterly compelling' KEVIN BARRY
'Twist lingers long after you've put it down' GUARDIAN
'A Gatsby tale for the internet age' ANNA FUNDER
'One of our greatest storytellers' ELIF SHAFAK
'Masterful ... A surprising, electric book' IRISH TIMES
'A powerfully realist novel of men at sea . It speaks of the brokenness of our time, the successful and unsuccessful attempts at repairs, and the vulnerability of our world' SALMAN RUSHDIE
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Anthony Fennell, a journalist, is in pursuit of a story buried at the bottom of the sea: the network of tiny fibre-optic tubes that carry the world's information across the ocean floor - and what happens when they break.
So he has travelled to Cape Town to board the George Lecointe, a cable repair vessel captained by Chief of Mission John Conway. Conway is a talented engineer and fearless freediver - and Fennell is quickly captivated by this mysterious, unnerving man and his beautiful partner, Zanele.
As the boat embarks along the west coast of Africa, Fennell learns the rhythms of life at sea, and finds his place among the band of drifters who make up the crew. But as the mission falters, tensions simmer - and Conway is thrown into crisis. A terrible, violent tragedy is unfolding in the life he has left behind on land; and, trapped out at sea, it seems as if the vast expanse of the ocean is closing in.
Then Conway disappears; and Fennell must set out to find him.
As taut and propulsive as a thriller, and a timeless exploration of narrative and truth, Twist is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.
'Electrifying, propulsive ... A masterful exploration of the elemental forces at work just below the surface of all our lives' COLIN WALSH, author of Kala
Recenzii
Transforming real-world observation into powerful storytelling is McCann's superpower
McCann can find beauty, even mystery, on the front lines of danger and conflict - much like Michael Ondaatje, whose prose his own recalls ... McCann's close-focus descriptive prose - taut, compressed, image-rich - flashes like sunken treasure . Few novelists pay such close, visionary, heed to the "true stories of our times"
McCann gives his tale the sense of a held breath . Part thriller, part existential mediation on self, Twist is a strange and satisfying book that reaches for the depths
Simply stunning . Part thriller and part exploration of narrative and truth. (There are deliberate echoes of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness) . The 21st-century human seems a very broken thing in Twist. And McCann's novel, penned by a brilliant storyteller at the height of his powers, has a disconcerting ability to help you simultaneously find and lose your bearings
Full of wonder at the scale and beauty of the natural world - and full of anger at humanity's capacity to wreck it . There are passages of extraordinary vividness, evoked with a power that seems to persuade you that you're either a participant or a witness ... Builds to a bravura climactic escapade ... I loved the thoughtful, essayistic inquiries into nature and the environment, and the consciousness-raising voyage towards the broken cable . Like Heart of Darkness, Twist lingers after you've put it down
An exhilarating adventure reminiscent of Joseph Conrad, with just a hint of Graham Greene
Masterful, a surprising, electric book ... A wired up story of what it means to be bend yourself into new shapes, and be broken
Genuinely haunting and sometimes thrilling ... There are also plenty of genuinely gorgeous passages about the way people are translated into dots of light in our information-based economy. As usual, McCann is sensitive to the fluid nature of oppression across history and countries
Told with McCann's incomparable prose, Twist opens a window into an obscure way people on earth are connected, told by a man who is himself fairly broken ... Gorgeously written and sad and inspiring
Film noir meets The Great Gatsby in McCann's deep dive of a novel ... An immersive read destined to win prizes
Every sentence feels placed with confidence - and through various authorial wiles he has produced a work at once enigmatic and urgent
Dazzling ... a plot that uncoils with page-turning urgency ... McCann's prose has a power and lyrical propulsion that can be quite dazzling . an unexpected denouement that uncoils with page-turning urgency
An exploration of hidden depths told in shimmering prose
Not unlike a thriller . There's still the same relish of language, character and empathy that's twice seen McCann make the Booker Prize longlist
A Graham Greene-ish thriller . Dark, moving and very entertaining
A thrilling tale of a man all at sea
An expert storyteller ... An utterly modern novel
McCann explores the mystery of what it is to be human, and what holds us all together. For this he has picked the ultimate metaphor - the way our connections and the mass of information vital to our lives thrums through glass fibres smaller than a hair deep under the ocean. The cables, both vulnerable and essential, reflect the strength and fragility of our bonds, and of our selves. This is a Gatsby story for the information age. In the end no amount of information, and possibly not love either, can solve the essential mystery of another person
Masterfully woven and delicately layered, and told with such calm wisdom that it will take your breath away. Engrossing, deeply moving and consistently honest, Colum McCann is one of our greatest storytellers
Beautifully written ... An immense talent ... Possessed of enough heart and empathy to make most writers pale into McCann's formidable shadow
Electrifying, propulsive ... a masterful exploration of the elemental forces at work just below the surface of all our lives
With echoes of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Twist by Colum McCann, his follow-up to the acclaimed Apeirogon, follows two Irishmen off Africa as vital underwater cables are repaired, and sabotaged
Colum McCann gives us a powerfully realist novel of men at sea, literally, emotionally, and metaphorically. It speaks of the brokenness of our time, the successful and unsuccessful attempts at repairs, and the vulnerability of our world. The spirit of Joseph Conrad hovers over the text, but here the heart of darkness lies at the bottom of the ocean
Praise for Colum McCann: McCann writes with an amazing abundance of humanity
McCann is an empathy engine
A giant amongst us - fearless, huge-hearted, a poet with every living breathe
An audacious and wonderfully skilled writer
A great writer prepared to take risks
Colum McCann is a very gifted, charming writer; in full, rhapsodic-onrush mode, he is hard to resist
McCann writes with a ferocious eloquence and a masterly sense of narrative