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Melmoth
Sarah Perry
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Beschreibung
'Hugely readable and profoundly important ... Perry's masterly piece of postmodern gothic is one of the great achievements of our century'
The Observer
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
OBSERVER FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
'Beautiful, devastating, brilliant'
Marian Keyes
'Astonishingly dark ... exquisitely balanced'
Francis Spufford
'Packs a punch of atmosphere, creepiness, fear and melancholy'
Susan Hill
'Mythic, ominous and sensitively human'
Frances Hardinge
'Richly atmospheric, daring and surprising'
Melissa Harrison
'Striking and brave, ... moving and terribly beautiful'
Sam Guglani
Oh my friend, won't you take my hand - I've been so lonely!
One winter night in Prague, Helen Franklin meets her friend Karel on the street.
Agitated and enthralled, he tells her he has come into possession of a mysterious old manuscript, filled with personal testimonies that take them from 17th-century England to wartime Czechoslovakia, the tropical streets of Manila, and 1920s Turkey. All of them tell of being followed by a tall, silent woman in black, bearing an unforgettable message.
Helen reads its contents with intrigue, but everything in her life is about to change.
Rezensionen
An ominous story of creeping dread, perfect for the lengthening evenings
Astonishingly dark, rich storytelling, exquisitely balanced between gothic shocks and emotional truth
A novel that manages that vanishingly rare feat - being at once hugely readable and profoundly important
Sarah Perry is a wonderful writer, the real thing
The rich Gothic imagination of Perry'
Mythic, ominous and sensitively human, Melmoth is haunting in all the best ways
This is a beautiful, devastating, brilliant book. It affected me so much I was shaking after I read it. The exquisite, immersive writing compelled me to keep reading even through the horrors described.
Scary and smart, but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of love and will.
Rich, elegant and atmospheric
<p>Atmospheric and unsettling, Perry'
Sarah Perry stands out as an exhilaratingly bold storyteller <i></i>
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