Donna Tartt

Ana Schnabl

Roman se dogaja v Vermontu, na elitnem kolidžu, kjer pod okriljem skrivnostnega, karizmatičnega profesorja Juliana šest študentov starogrščine poleg zakonitosti in lepote jezika raziskuje tudi poti preseganja sivine in rutine vsakdana. Štirje iz skupine v noči, preživeti po zgledu grških bakanalij, nehote zagrešijo umor vaščana, kateremu sledi še umor sošolca Bunnyja, ki je četverici grozil s prijavo policiji ter jih, ekscentrične premožneže, tudi brezvestno denarno izsiljeval. Napetost in srhljivost romana, kjer so zločin in storilci znani že na začetku, je v prepričljivih značajskih opisih glavnih protagonistov ter v prikazu opustošenja, ki ga v dušah nesrečnikov povzročajo kesanje, strah pred razkritjem, breme krivde. Knjiga je ob izidu postala kultna uspešnica, ki je prevedena v kar dvajset jezikov in prodana v več kot 5 milijonih izvodov.

Skrivna zgodovina

The Masterpiece is a love story with tinges of the political thriller, written in a tantalizing prose style. Set in the golden years of 1980s Yugoslavia, it revels in an era of unprecedented freedom of thought and travel, while also revealing the tight grip that the state maintained on the lives of its citizens, not least through its security services and its web of informants.

The Masterpiece

Dunja, having finally gotten a little acclaim and money from her writing career, decides it's time to return home to the Adriatic coast and solve the mystery of her brother's death that set in motion the suicide of her father. Flood Tide is a sweeping exploration of the violence born from human ambivalences, limitations and decisions. It is as elegantly plotted and psychologically deft as a Ross Macdonald mystery, and has the idiosyncratic virtuosity of Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season.

Ana Schnabl

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