White Tears: Hari Kunzru - Brossura

Kunzru, Hari

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ISBN 10: 0241272963 ISBN 13: 9780241272961

Casa editrice: Hamish Hamilton, 2017

Riassunto

'Like Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch... A stunning novel of ideas that becomes a page-turning thriller... ' Stylist

'A fast-paced, ambitious, hallucinatory mystery' Publishers Weekly

A dizzying, nail-biting ghost story about modern America from the bestselling author of The Impressionist

Two twenty-something New Yorkers: Seth, awkward and shy, and Carter, the trust fund hipster. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Rising fast on the New York producing scene, they stumble across an old blues song long forgotten by history -- and everything starts to unravel. Carter is drawn far down a path that allows no return, and Seth has no choice but to follow his friend into the darkness.

Electrifying, subversive and wildly original, White Tears is a ghost story and a love story, a story about lost innocence and historical guilt. This unmissable novel penetrates the heart of a nation's darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge and exploitation, and holding a mirror up to the true nature of America today.

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White Tears is a book that everyone should be reading right now (TIME Magazine)

[A] stunning, audacious, urgent thriller, as challenging as it is terrifying, as brave as it is brutal... It will shock you, horrify you, unsettle you, and that's exactly the point. It lets nothing and nobody off the hook (NPR)

Delilloesque -- moody, threatening, and profoundly dark... A story about ghosts, about grievances leaking through the fabric of decades, and about retribution, violence and hatred. At every turn, Kunzru's words concoct a dreamlike world where the past isn't dead and the boundaries of reality flicker at the margins. (Huffington Post)

Haunting, doom-drenched, genuinely and viscerally disturbing... Kunzru showcases his trademark exhilarating prose throughout - closing with a conclusion that packs a real punch (Independent)

Like Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch... A stunning novel of ideas that becomes a page-turning thriller... During Trump's presidency, reading White Tears feels like a necessary and exhilarating act (Stylist)

A disorientating odyssey through decades of American history...Kunzru has always been an assured and intellectually gifted novelist, but I am not sure he has ever before displaying such emotional heft (Daily Telegraph)

Visceral horror, pacey storytelling and razor tautness. White Tears is a state-of-the-nation novel that ties pre-Civil Rights barbarism with a contemporary amnesia that parades as post racial America (Evening Standard)

Graceful [and] exquisitely attuned (Washington Post)

Exquisite... captures a yearning achieved fleetingly in life and more fully in art (i)

At its heart is a serious reminder of how too often history robs the powerless of their voices (Daily Mail)

L'autore:

Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men, and the story collection Noise. He lives in New York and his next novel, White Tears, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in spring 2017.

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• Editore: Hamish Hamilton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0241272963
• ISBN 13: 9780241272961
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288