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After Me Comes the Flood
Sarah Perry
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
The debut novel by the bestselling author of THE ESSEX SERPENT
One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind.
He shuts up the bookshop no one ever comes to and drives out of London. When his car breaks down and he becomes lost on an isolated road, he goes looking for help, and stumbles into the grounds of a grand but dilapidated house.
Its residents welcome him with open arms - but there's more to this strange community than meets the eye. They all know him by name, they've prepared a room for him, and claim to have been waiting for him all along.
Who are these people? And what do they intend for John?
Elegant, gently sinister and psychologically complex, After Me Comes the Flood is the haunting debut novel by the author of The Essex Serpent.
Rezensionen
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A dark, marvellous novel ... Perry evokes the oppressive atmosphere in precise, elegant prose ... This mesmeric quality recalls Sebald'
Impossible to put down
An original and haunting book ... a mix of elegant, alluring, but subtly sinister characters ... a talented writer
Perry'
<i>After Me Comes the Flood</i> is written in deceptively straightforward prose that gradually yields a profound sense of foreboding. A house and the mysteries it contains; a disconcerting, dark reservoir to which everyone's attention returns; and a most unsettling sense of place - all made me think of Fowles' The Magus, Maxwell's <i>The Chateau</i>, and Woolf'
Just occasionally you pick up a novel that is inexplicably gripping from the first page - and Perry'
Unsettling, thoughtful, eerie...strange and new...It'
What makes this novel truly remarkable is its unique vision, its skilful and sophisticated characterisations, and the creation, without unseemly effects, of an atmosphere that will haunt the reader long after the final page
Perry is a startlingly good writer. If she doesn't win the Booker prize one day, I'
Kundenbewertungen
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