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Cargando... The Farm (2014 original; edición 2014)por Tom Rob Smith
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. What do you do when your mother believes everyone is out to get her? We meet Daniel, estranged from his parents, living with his boyfriend in London. A sudden and urgent email sends him to Sweden, only to end up meeting his mother at the Heathrow airport. Bringing evidence of the crimes she suspects, Daniel can only listen as his mother's story unravels into a mystery. A quick read, perfect for a rainy day. I wouldn't call the ending expected, but leaves you with a feeling of "it all makes sense now." Very engaging though not the drama I was expecting. I was definitely drawn into the story from the very beginning though making the main character gay was on some level unnecessary though it was only a small level. Otherwise, you are certainly spending the time trying to figure out how believable Tilde really is. Her narrative of events seem so fantastic that you can understand why she was hospitalized. And yet there are elements that ring true and not false. The ending left a lot to be desired though. Overall, a pretty good read.
Meticulously weaving together literary themes of revenge and madness (it is easy to lose count how many woman submerge themselves in bodies of water at various points in the novel), 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. It would be easy to accuse Child 44 author Tom Rob Smith, whose latest novel is set between London and rural Sweden, of jumping on the bandwagon. The Farm lays out a pattern with which readers have become familiar. The picturesque but boring village ringed by isolated farms; a district dominated by a strong but taciturn patriarch; the disappearance of a vulnerable young woman, which is uncovered by an unreliable female investigator; the veneer of respectability that readers soon begin to suspect masks something rotten in the state of Scandi. But Smith, whose mother is Swedish, is playing a long game. The world he has created may initially appear full of enjoyably restful conventions, but any cliches in The Farm exist to wrongfoot us. This is a neatly plotted book full of stories within stories, which gradually unravel to confound our expectations. Pertenece a las series editorialesPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Apenas han pasado unas horas desde que la vida de Daniel ha sufrido un vuelco radical. Esa misma mañana, mientras regresaba a casa del supermercado, una llamada inquietante ha roto el hilo de sus pensamientos: Chris, su padre, le informa de que su madre ha sido ingresada en un sanatorio, presa de delirios. Antes siquiera de sobreponerse al impacto, otra llamada igualmente perturbadora estalla en sus oídos. Esta vez es la voz temblorosa de su madre, Tilde, asegurándole que Chris es un mentiroso, que ella no está loca, que ha salido del centro por su propio pie, pero que teme por su vida y se encuentra de camino a Londres para verlo y explicárselo todo. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A really well-done plot with great pacing and some clever twists. Tilda’s story is at all times equal parts convincing and suspicious, and it keeps you guessing right up to the end. ( )