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Whalefall: A Novel de Daniel Kraus

Whalefall: A Novel

Autor Daniel Kraus
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 noi 2023

Bazându-ne pe datele furnizate de editura Bonnier Books UK, remarcăm în Whalefall o fuziune rară între acuratețea științifică a biologiei marine și tensiunea viscerală a unui roman de supraviețuire. Ne-a atras atenția premisa tehnică extrem de riguroasă: Jay Gardiner, un scafandru experimentat, se trezește prizonier în primul dintre cele patru stomacuri ale unui cașalot de optzeci de picioare. Apreciem modul în care Daniel Kraus transformă o situație aparent fantastică într-o cursă contra cronometru de 60 de minute, unde limitele fizice ale echipamentului de scufundare și fiziologia cetaceului dictează ritmul narativ.

Comparabil cu Sounding de Hank Searls în ceea ce privește profunzimea detaliilor despre interacțiunea om-balenă, Whalefall se diferențiază printr-o abordare mult mai dinamică, axată pe supraviețuirea pură și pe lupta cu elementele biologice ostile. Dacă în alte lucrări ale sale, precum Rotters sau Pay the Piper, autorul explora latura macabră și supranaturală a condiției umane, aici el ancorează teroarea în realitatea biologică. Structura este cinematică, alternând între claustrofobia stomacului balenei și trauma psihologică legată de tatăl protagonistului. Din punct de vedere al genului, volumul funcționează ca un manual de hidrobiologie aplicată sub presiune extremă, evitând clișeele de dragul unei verosimilități care accentuează vulnerabilitatea umană în fața forțelor naturii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781665918169
ISBN-10: 1665918160
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: MTV Books
Colecția MTV Books

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un roman polițist de supraviețuire cu o bază științifică solidă. Dincolo de suspans, veți câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra anatomiei marine, totul într-un format de tip „cursă contra cronometru”. Este lectura ideală pentru cei care au apreciat realismul tehnic din alte thrillere maritime, oferind o explorare emoționantă a doliului și a rezilienței umane în condiții biologice extreme.

Despre autor

Daniel Kraus este un autor și regizor american recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a îmbina genul horror cu realismul psihologic. Printre cele mai cunoscute lucrări ale sale se numără Rotters și colaborarea cu regizorul Guillermo del Toro pentru volumul Trollhunters. Locuiește în Chicago și este apreciat pentru versatilitatea sa, scriind de la literatură pentru tineret până la romane de suspans tehnico-științific. În Whalefall, Kraus își folosește experiența de editor și regizor pentru a crea o narațiune vizuală, documentată riguros din punct de vedere biologic, confirmându-și statutul de autor polivalent în literatura contemporană.

Descriere scurtă

The Martian meets 127 Hours in this “powerfully humane” (Owen King, New York Times bestselling author) and scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.

Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it’s a long shot, but Jay feels it’s the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad’s death by suicide the previous year.

The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid’s tentacles and drawn into the whale’s mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale.

Suspenseful and cinematic, Whalefall is an “astoundingly great” (Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author) thriller about a young man who has given up on life…only to find a reason to live in the most dangerous and unlikely of places.

Notă biografică

Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His novel Angel Down was the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, a New York Times Top 10 Book of the year, and a national bestseller. His novel Whalefall received a front-cover review in The New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, was an Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was named a Best Book of Year by NPR, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and more. With Guillermo del Toro, he coauthored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus coauthored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy Award–winning Netflix series. He cowrote The Living Dead and Pay the Piper with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler), and has appeared multiple times as Library Guild selections, and more. Kraus’s work has been translated into over twenty-five languages. He lives with his partner in Chicago. Visit him at DanielKraus.com.

Recenzii

"Whalefall is a rare thing: a page-turning, hold-your-breath, man-vs-nature thrill ride, but also a gripping exploration of the unnavigable relationship between parent and child. It's an anguished cry from the depths of that struggle. Bravo!"
“A crazy, and crazily enjoyable, beat-the-clock adventure story about fathers, sons, guilt and the mysteries of the sea . . . [Kraus] brings the rigor of a scientist and the sensibility of a poet to his descriptions of the undersea world.”—New York Times

“This gripping sci-fi thriller from bestseller Kraus takes readers quite literally into the belly of the beast […]  Kraus provides solid nautical science alongside the stretchy coincidences that fuel Jay’s survival. Just on the brink of horror fiction, especially for the claustrophobic, Kraus’s deep-sea thrill ride will have readers on the edges of their seats.”—Publishers Weekly

"A moving character study disguised as a riveting, cinematic survival thriller...The pacing is relentless, the awe astounding, and the tension palpably constricting, even as Kraus takes time to provide necessary details both scientific and visceral."—Booklist, starred review

"This hard sci-fi thriller is full of cinematic and wild suspense and would be great for fans of Andy Weir."—Library Journal, starred review

“Picture Jack London, but with a more nuanced handling of broken, damaged men.”—Chicago Tribune

“One of the most intense — and moving — stories that will grace the bookstores in 2023…what Daniel Kraus has created here is something that can’t be quantified.”—Cemetery Dance

“An absolute triumph, a masterpiece of suspense, emotion, and flat-out terror…It’s one of this year’s can’t-miss books, and a journey you won’t soon forget.”—Paste Magazine

“Kraus turns the literal guts of this novel into a haunted house, a torture chamber, a church and a uterus for belated rebirth. There is nothing else quite like Whalefall.” —New Scientist
“A brutal, unsparing, wildly uplifting book. The sheer buoyancy had me breathless by the end.”
“Astoundingly great. Whalefall is, quite simply, a beautiful novel—a must-read story of the sea, the nature of awe, and the briny relationships between fathers and sons.”
“Brave, bold, epic, propulsive. Whalefall is a deeply moving thriller that holds a planet’s worth of hope in the pit of its stomach.”
“The primordial nightmare at the core of Whalefall is fantastically gripping. A character study developed in the most intense crucible imaginable, Kraus’s latest novel is smart, surreal, and powerfully humane.”
"A masterpiece. I haven't felt so alive reading a book in a long, long time."
“One of our oldest stories, one of our greatest fears, and one of our most capable writers. Stranger things than being swallowed by a whale have probably happened, but they've rarely been told so well.”
“Whalefall is a mind-blowing, take-your-breath-away adventure, but it’s also a tender and moving story of the relationship between a father and son. Daniel Kraus is a writer I greatly admire. He can do anything, and does.”
“Unexpectedly emotional and wildly entertaining, Whalefall is the tense revamp of Jonah’s tale you didn’t know you needed."