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Cargando... Dead Woman Walking (edición 2013)por Jessica Mann (Autor)
Información de la obraDead Woman Walking por Jessica Mann
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 "This is a complex and chilling story, with many shifts of perspective and timeframe. The quality of the writing shines out. The question of changing identity is crucial — not just of individuals but of women in British society over the last half-century. Beneath it all is an elegiac note of regret, a sense of wrong choices with long consequences." "There is a very striking climax, but this is also a novel of ideas, about feminism, family and literature ... As you would expect with Jessica Mann, it's a very well-written as well as a poignant book, and I'm delighted to have read it." "Engaging, enthralling and hugely entertaining"  "As ever with this author, the intelligent (and complex) texture of the novel matches its sheer storytelling nous."
Gillian Butler moved away from Edinburgh 50 years ago, or so her friends thought. When her murdered body is found, they must try to remember who last saw her alive. Perhaps it was Isabel, now a novelist and people-tracer, or the twice widowed Hannah, or the psychiatrist, Dr Fidelis Berlin, an expert on child abuse, abandonment, abduction and adoption, who had herself been an unidentified infant rescued from Nazi Germany and now hopes to discover her real name at last. Fidelis Berlin and other characters from Mann's earlier books reappear in this tense, gripping tale of vengeance, family ties and the mystery of identity. Jessica Mann is the author of 21 crime novels and 4 non-fiction books. As a journalist she has written for national newspapers, weeklies and glossy magazines. She is the crime fiction critic of The Literary Review. Jessica and her husband, the archaeologist Professor Charles Thomas, live in Cornwall. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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It seems that this novel is being sold in the 'crime' category, but really this element is secondary - or even tertiary. It is a complex narrative taking as its themes recovered memory, the mother-daughter relationship, witchcraft and child-abuse, Germans and Germany since the war, etc., etc.
Big ideas, then, and Mann creates a world teeming with vivid and credible characters with which to explore it. One cavil might be that it's sometimes difficult to remember who's who, or the relationship between whoever happens to be on the page at any given moment - but it's definitely a good read.
However, do be warned: this is a disturbing read, and sometimes a challenging one.
I might read Jessica Mann again, but probably not very soon. (