Susan Barker
autor
Old Soul
The woman never goes by the same name.
She never stays in the same place too long.
She never ages. She never dies.
But those around her do.
When two grieving strangers meet by chance in Osaka airport they uncover a disturbing connection. Jake's best friend and Mariko's twin brother each died, 6,000 miles apart, in brutal and unfathomable circumstances.
Each encountered a mesmerising, dark-haired woman in the days before their deaths. A woman who came looking for Mariko - and then disappeared.
Jake, who has carried his loss and guilt for a decade, finds himself compelled to follow the trail set by Mariko's revelations. It's a trail that weaves across continents and centuries, leading back to the many who have died - in strange and terrifying and eerily similar ways - and those they left behind: bewildered, disbelieved, yet resolutely sure of what they saw.
And, at the centre of it all, there is the same beguiling woman. Her name may have changed, but her purpose has never wavered, and as Jake races to discover who, or what she is, she has already made her next choice.
But will knowing her secret be enough to stop her?
Old Soul
The woman never goes by the same name.
She never stays in the same place too long.
She never ages. She never dies.
But those around her do.
When two grieving strangers meet by chance in Osaka airport they uncover a disturbing connection. Jake's best friend and Mariko's twin brother each died, 6,000 miles apart, in brutal and unfathomable circumstances.
Each encountered a mesmerising, dark-haired woman in the days before their deaths. A woman who came looking for Mariko - and then disappeared.
Jake, who has carried his loss and guilt for a decade, finds himself compelled to follow the trail set by Mariko's revelations. It's a trail that weaves across continents and centuries, leading back to the many who have died - in strange and terrifying and eerily similar ways - and those they left behind: bewildered, disbelieved, yet resolutely sure of what they saw.
And, at the centre of it all, there is the same beguiling woman. Her name may have changed, but her purpose has never wavered, and as Jake races to discover who, or what she is, she has already made her next choice.
But will knowing her secret be enough to stop her?
Inkarnációk - Ezer éve rólunk álmodom
A könyvről:
"Meghökkentően eredeti, briliáns, az emberi elme határait feszegető-tágító regény" - ezzel az elismerő mondattal fogadta Susan Barker új könyvét írótársa, Chris Cleave.
A történet főszereplője Vang, a pekingi taxisofőr, aki egy nap különös levelet talál a kocsija szélvédőjén. Nyugtalanító sorok, melyek írója mintha egyre közelebbről figyelné meg őt és a családját. Vang nyomozni kezd a titokzatos, furcsa, de felkavaró levél nyomán, amelyet továbbiak is követnek. Mindegyikből a kínai történelem egy-egy meghatározó, ám véres, szenvedélyes és intrikákkal teli korszaka tárul fel, melyben az egyéni lét már-már kilátástalannak tűnő, folytonos küzdelem. Rokon lelkek találkoznak valami ellenállhatatlan erő hatására, majd törnek egymás életére. Vangot mágnesként vonzzák ezek a több száz éves történetek, és azon kapja magát, hogy nyakig ül egy rejtélyben, melyet ki kellene bogoznia - miközben az ismeretlen leskelődő által mozgatott szálak eltéphetetlen hálója egyre jobban befonja őt is és a családját is.
Vajon mi köze lehet egy hétköznapi taxisofőrnek a kegyetlen Csia-csing császár elleni merénylethez, az ópiumháború idején ügyeskedő kisemberekhez, a maoista korszak félelemmel teli légkörében élő gimnazista lányokhoz?
Lebilincselő és torokszorító lélekutazásra hív ez a regény még az után is, hogy a végén választ kapunk a kérdéseinkre.
Vypredané
16,39 €
Orientalist and the ghost
In Malaysia during the 1950s Communist insurrection, a young Englishman, Christopher, falls in love with a Chinese girl.An affair that ends in tragedy when, under attack from Communist guerrillas, Christopher is betrayed, beaten, and left for dead.In 1969, Frances, Christopher´s Eurasian teenage daughter, is seduced by a Chinese teacher twice her age and drawn into the Malay-Chinese race riots in Kuala Lumpur.The story about the travels to 1990s London, when the ghosts of that time return to haunt Christopher, triggering vivid memories of colonial misconduct and lost love. Frances's two mixed-race children live with their grandfather on a council estate, and embark on a quest to discover the truth behind their mother´s death.
Vypredané
5,00 €






