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White City de Dominic Nolan

White City

Autor Dominic Nolan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 noi 2024

În tradiția stabilită de Queen of Thieves de Beezy Marsh, acest roman recreează cu o precizie brutală lumea interlopă a Londrei de la mijlocul secolului trecut. Remarcăm aceeași forță narativă în descrierea femeilor care încearcă să supraviețuiască într-un univers dominat de bărbați violenți. Totuși, Dominic Nolan extinde perspectiva, transformând orașul într-un organism viu, rănit și periculos. Londra anului 1952 este o ruină victorioasă. Raționalizarea continuă. Gangsterii conduc străzile. Un jaf spectaculos paralizează poliția și aprinde ziarele. Dar pentru Addie Rowe și Claire Martin, jaful nu este o știre, ci o tragedie personală: tații lor nu s-au mai întors acasă. Apreciem modul în care Dominic Nolan împletește destinele acestor familii cu ascensiunea unor figuri sinistre precum Teddy 'Mother' Nunn. Autorul continuă explorarea tensiunilor sociale începute în Vine Street, însă aici miza este mult mai personală. Trecem de la foamea și sărăcia din Brixton la revoltele rasiale din Notting Hill din 1958. Ritmul este alert. Propozițiile sunt tăioase. Atmosfera este sufocantă, încărcată de fum de țigară și teamă. Nu este doar un roman polițist istoric; este o cronică a supraviețuirii. White City demonstrează o maturitate stilistică superioară față de Past Life, ancorând ficțiunea în realitatea dură a imigrației și a rasismului postbelic. Recomandăm această experiență celor care caută o lectură densă, unde violența străzii se ciocnește cu speranța fragilă a unor oameni uitați de sistem.

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ISBN-13: 9781035416752
ISBN-10: 1035416751
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 163 x 238 x 39 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Editura: Headline

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Recomandăm White City cititorilor care apreciază romanele polițiste istorice cu o puternică componentă socială. Este o ocazie rară de a vedea Londra anilor '50 prin ochii celor marginalizați, nu doar ai detectivilor. Câștigați o perspectivă viscerală asupra istoriei britanice, totul într-un stil literar care a impresionat criticii de la The Times și The Guardian. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii genului noir britanic autentic.

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A stunning crime novel in which the most brazen heist in history sends shockwaves through 1950's London - and tears apart the lives of two families. An intoxicating read for fans of Colson Whitehead, Deepti Kapoor and Ray Celestin.

Recenzii

Dominic Nolan's 'Vine Street' was exceptional, but 'White City' goes above and beyond, a gripping story of curdled dreams and bad intentions set in a sharply-realised 1950s London. I very much doubt I'll read a better crime novel this year.
The best crime novel I've read this year
Superb
Quite breathtaking...as sweeping as anything by James Ellroy
A gripping, atmospheric tale *****
Dom Nolan novels aren't just stories, but complete worlds. Immersive, epic, unforgettable. WHITE CITY is simply unmissable for anyone serious about (crime) fiction.
Yet again Nolan confirms his place as one of the UK's finest writers. White City is both fiercely ambitious and startlingly intimate, teeming with morally complex characters desperately trying to navigate a way through dark, treacherous waters. UK crime has waited a long time to find its James Ellroy; the wait is now officially over.
White City has it all: violent gangsters, a love story across the ages, riots, revenge. It will lift you high above the clouds, then dash you on the rocks. Nolan doesn't shy away from doing the unthinkable; no character is safe, not even the most beloved. Beautiful and brutal, this is a book to get lost in, to savour and enjoy, time and time again.
Transportive, compelling and completely all consuming, White City confirms Nolan as one of Britain's elite crime writers. Prose so expertly crafted, you can reach out and touch it, and characters so real they possess your soul. A gift of a novel.
WHITE CITY is quite simply a brilliant novel: broad in scope, deeply etched, so very sharp and stylish. The seamless blend of fact and fiction, the richly imagined lives of these heroic and monstrous characters, and the swagger and swing of the writing make for a masterpiece of social historical crime fiction.
Terrific! A noir-drenched tapestry of 1950s London, in which two families struggle to survive as their lives crack apart like a bullet-riddled windscreen in the aftermath of robbery and murder. Crackling dialogue, biting humour, brutal action and issues that resonate today, all underscored by poignancy and compassion.
White City is a love letter to the gritty underbelly of last century London, one I struggled to leave. I fell in love with Lander (I defy you not to) and indeed with the very streets themselves. The violence is brutal, the grief is vivid, and yet I was spellbound. It's a masterpiece.
WHITE CITY is set to be the crime novel of the year: an epic immersion into 1950s London's gang violence, racial tension, riots and broken families, in the aftermath of the biggest robbery in British history....Nolan writes with enviable skill and subtlety about the brutal and profound. His prose is divine, sending you head over heels with his characters and then dashing your heart on the rocks. And we love him for it.
Provocative, compelling, and an immersive and timely depiction of 1950's London. Nolan grabs the reader by the scruff of the neck and frogmarches them through a city whose buildings and minds are scarred by war. Violence and death are nothing to the criminal who has seen such horrors on the battlefields of Europe. A complex, visceral plot populated with unforgettable often tragically flawed characters at the heart of which lies a beautiful almost fable-like love story
Mind-blowing...so much more than a crime novel. Entirely immersive, with such a brilliant cast of characters and a commentary that works for today, it's just frankly an amazing piece of work
White City is a triumph of British noir writing. The dark beauty of post-war London is explored in stark, fearless prose. Populated with characters unforgettable for both their humanity and monstrosity, White City is a complex exploration of inequality, criminality and heartbreaking betrayal.
'What a triumph. What an absolutely magnificent achievement. Transporting, startling, and ultimately almost overwhelmingly powerful'
An extraordinary piece of work. The writing is beautiful and the world is entirely realistic in its brutality and moments of transcendence, reminiscent of Patrick Hamilton's work and also Brighton Rock. A brilliant book.
Incredibly good... one of the most interesting, brilliant crime writers around
A major success....strongly recommended.
Gripping
A tremendous feat of mid-century conjuring: attentive to all manner of vanished moral and material minutiae, while practically Ellroyian in narrative shape, scope and verve. This is one of the richest, most absorbing novels I've read all year, with its cast of hell-seekers and heartbreakers, the hunters and the haunted. Nolan's achievement here is crime fiction as social history, as national reckoning.
A truly excellent crime novel

Immersive and stylish. I took my time with this story, savouring every paragraph. What a writer
It is a genius book
Dominic Nolan is one hell of a writer. If you have not read Vine Street or White City, you need to remedy that right now. Both are simply stunning
More James Ellroy than Agatha Christie, it's bleak, brutal and often thrilling. Both vivid and visceral, it's a rewarding reminder of just how ambitious crime fiction can be

Dominic Nolan is a brilliant and immersive writer, and this marvellous novel will play havoc with your emotions