Scarlett Thomas: The Sleepwalkers
The Sleepwalkers
Buch
- Simon & Schuster, 04/2024
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781668032985
- Bestellnummer: 11533285
- Umfang: 304 Seiten
- Gewicht: 408 g
- Maße: 213 x 140 mm
- Stärke: 15 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 9.4.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lotus in this surprising and suspenseful modern gothic story following a couple running from both secretive pasts and very present dangers while honeymooning on a Greek island.Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It’s the end of the season and a storm is imminent. Determined to make the best of it, they check into the sun-soaked doors of the Villa Rosa. Already feeling insecure after seeing the “beautiful people,” the seemingly endless number of young models and musicians lounging along the Mediterranean, Evelyn is wary of the hotel’s owner, Isabella, who seems to only have eyes for Richard.
Isabella ostensibly disapproves of every request Evelyn makes, seemingly annoyed at the fact that they are there at all. Isabella is also preoccupied with her chance to enthrall the only other guests—an American producer named Marcus and his partner Debbie—with the story of “the sleepwalkers,” a couple who had stayed at the hotel recently and drowned.
Everyone seems to want to talk about the sleepwalkers, save for Hamza, a young Turkish man Evelyn had seen with some “beautiful people,” as well as the “dapper little man”—the strange yet fashionable owner of the island’s lone antiques and gift shop she sees everywhere.
But what at first seemed eccentric, decorative, or simply ridiculous, becomes a living nightmare. Evelyn and Richard are separated the night of the storm and forced to face dark truths, but it’s their confessions around the origins of their relationship and the years leading up to their marriage that might save them.
Exhilarating, suspenseful, and also very funny, The Sleepwalkers asks urgent questions about relationships, sexuality, and the darkest elements of contemporary society—where our most terrible secrets are hidden in plain sight.
Biografie
Scarlett Thomas wurde 1972 in London geboren. Schon früh entdeckte die junge Frau ihre Liebe zur Literatur. So hat sie neben zahlreichen Kurzgeschichten bereits sechs Romane veröffentlicht. 2001 wurde sie vom "Independent on Sunday" zu den 20 besten englischen Nachwuchsautoren gezählt, und 2002 kürte man sie bei den "Elle Style Awards" zum "Writer of the Year". Scarlett Thomas lebt im englischen Kent und unterrichtet an der dortigen Universität Creative Writing. Scarlett Thomas
The Sleepwalkers
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