The Farm - Rilegato

Tom Rob Smith

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ISBN 10: 1847375693 ISBN 13: 9781847375698

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster UK, 2014

Riassunto

If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son... Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother... she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things.In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Daniel is immediately caught between his parents - whom to believe, whom to trust? He becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide for himself: who is telling the truth? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...

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Recensione:

'On rare occasions, an author pulls off the high-wire act of writing a crime-oriented novel that easily transcends the genre. The Farm is one of these. In the vein of Høeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow and le Carré's A Perfect Spy, the tale brilliantly choreographs the collision of the present with the familial past. Author Smith takes a new direction here, but his skills are as finely honed as ever, with this tale that's both a page turner and a searing examination of the lives of our protagonist, his lover and his family. Structurally innovative and stylistically resonant, The Farm is a remarkable achievement' --Jeffery Deaver

'Chilling, hypnotic and thoroughly compelling. You will not read a better thriller this year' --Mark Billingham

'Tom Rob Smith has created a truly original and chilling thriller, which makes you ask yourself: who would I believe?' --Jojo Moyes

'This is a neatly plotted book full of stories within stories, which gradually unravel to confound our expectations...Smith's twisting, turning novel shows that Scandi crime also retains the ability to surprise and thrill' --Guardian

'A mind-blowing, addictive plot that will have you on the edge of your seat, tearing through the pages as the truth involving a missing teenage girl, Swedish folklore and some sinister neighbours slowly leaks out' --Stylist

'A pacey page-turner with an ending you'll be dying to talk about' --Good Housekeeping

'This is a tale of suspense as a man is torn between his mother and father, not knowing who to trust. Packed with conspiracies and secrets' --Woman & Home

'The Farm is tense, twisting and claustrophobic, and is everything you could want in a thriller'--The Bookseller

'Gripping' --Gay Times

'A taut and atmospheric psychological thriller, which keeps the reader guessing until the very end...Rob Smith breaks new ground, geographically and stylistically...the story is compelling, well-crafted and gripping...an excellent and unusual thriller'-- Irish Independent

'Tom Rob Smith returns with a brilliant psychological thriller...An eerie ride, perfect for fans of Gone Girl' --Viv Groskop's Recommended Reads, Red

'Tom Rob Smith breathes new life into the landscape, transcending the traditional crime fiction genre with an intricately-knitted thriller steeped in mythology. In The Farm, Rob Smith demonstrates the same craftsmanship that saw his highly-acclaimed novel Child 44 claim the Galaxy Book Award for Best New Writer and long-listed for the Manbooker Prize, among its many plaudits. This latest offering is a tapestry of fairytales old and new; so unsettling and oppressive that it blurs the distinctions between sanity and madness, reality and fantasy, leaving the reader guessing until the bitter end' --Independent

'The author of smash-hit period thriller Child 44 (soon to be a film starring Tom Hardy) shifts style for this satisfying and original psychological thriller' --5 star review, Heat

Praise for Tom Rob Smith

'His mastery of suspense will make any reader's heart pound'Financial Times

'Smith's brilliance is for hitching a history lesson to an express-train plot'Independent on Sunday

'In a class with Le Carré'Suspense Magazine

'An exceptionally strong thriller...perfect entertainment'Die Welt

'Terrific'Daily Telegraph

'Tom Rob Smith is patently a talented writer' Observer

'A searing echo of today's headlines'Library Journal

'Another first-class, must-read crime novel' Booklist

'Tom Rob Smith stands out in having grasped the insidious nature of a system that tries to prescribe what people think...a gripping, complex read'The Times

'Superb...Action-packed, immaculately researched...pungent and powerful'Metro

'The Phrase 'Master Storyteller' simply cannot do him justice'Scotsman

'Tom Rob Smith is a name to watch' Independent

'Explosive...Smith writes with finesse and authority'USA Today

'Smith's prose is propulsive'Entertainment Weekly

'A powerful page-turner' GQ'So Gripping'Daily Express --Daily Express

L'autore:

Born in 1979 to a Swedish mother and an English father, Tom Rob Smith's bestselling novels in the Child 44 trilogy were international publishing sensations. Among its many honours, Child 44 won the International Thriller Writer Award for Best First Novel, the Galaxy Book Award for Best New Writer, the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the inaugural Desmond Elliot Prize. Child 44 is now a major motion picture starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847375693
• ISBN 13: 9781847375698
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 400