Claire Messud’s latest novel, “The Woman Upstairs,” is an incongruous mashup of a very self-consciously literary novel and one of those psychological horror films like “Single White Female” in which someone, ominously, is not who she appears to be.
Schlagwort-Archive: Michiko Kakutani
Rezensionen: John le Carré: “A Delicate Truth”
Besprechungen in der New York Times von Michiko Kakutani und Olen Steinhauer, National Post von Philip Marchand und im Telegraph von Jon Stock (bitte jeweils auf den Namen des Rezensenten klicken).
Rezension: Roger Hobbs “Ghostman”
Mr. Hobbs – who graduated in 2011 from Reed College – seizes the attention and holds it tight, not so much through his plotting or his characters but through his sheer, masterly use of details, and the authoritative, hard-boiled voice he has fashioned for Jack.
Rezension: Ian McEwan: “Sweet Tooth”
Ian McEwan’s coy new novel, “Sweet Tooth,” begins with an intriguing confession from the narrator: “My name is Serena Frome (rhymes with plume) and almost 40 years ago I was sent on a secret mission for the British security service.
Rezension: Kevin Powers: “The Yellow Birds”
Kevin Powers joined the Army when he was 17 and served as a machine-gunner in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. Drawing upon those experiences, he has written a remarkable first novel, one that stands as a classic of contemporary war fiction.
Rezension: Peter L. Bergen: “Manhunt”
In “Manhunt: The Ten Year Search For Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad”, author and national security expert Peter Bergen promises the full story on the tracking down and killing of the Al-Qaeda terrorist leader, Osama bin Laden.
Rezension: Robert Harris: »The Fear Index«
The title of Robert Harris’s new thriller, »The Fear Index«, comes from the volatility index, or VIX — also known as the »fear index« – which measures expectations of violent swings in the market, as Wall Street watchers know from the harrowing meltdown of 2008.