الغريب

by C.S. Duffy, مارلين شكيب (Narrator), ضحى صلاح (Translator)

'فيرغوس' يغرق! ابنه 'ألفي' كالكابوس، وهناك أيضًا طفل ما يبكي طوال الوقت في مكان ما بالبناية التي يعيش فيها.

لقد بدأ في تمني لو أنه لم يوافق قط على ترك مهنته كمحامٍ في لندن لأجل الانتقال إلى ستوكهولم مع زوجته الناجحة 'تيس'. يبدأ فيرغوس في محاولة العثور على هذا الطفل الباكي، لمعرفة ما يبكيه وإذا كان يمكنه مساعدته، أو على الأقل تقديم بعض التعاطف الأبوي، ولكن كل باب في البناية -حرفيًّا أو مجازًا- صفق في وجهه. وفوق كل هذا يبدو أن ابنه 'ألفي' قد عاد إلى مرحلة 'حديث الأطفال'، وبدأ في التحدث إلى نفسه بكلمات غير مفهومة طوال اليوم. لكن مصادفتهما لأحد الجيران ستغير الكثير من الأمور.

Genres: Audiobook

1 pages, Audiobook

Published June 20, 2019

About the author

C.S. Duffy writes psychological suspense thrillers with a healthy dose of black humour.

Her background is in film and TV. She has several projects in development in Sweden and the UK, and her thriller feature Guilty will be shot in April 2018 in Canada. She is the author of Life is Swede, a psychological thriller that was originally written as a blog - leading several readers to contact Swedish news agencies asking them why they hadn’t reported the murder that features in the blog.

Claire also runs Hollywoodland, a series of podcasts about the pioneering female filmmakers of 1910s/20s Hollywood.

Reviews

[badriah.. · Rating 4 out of 5]

ابغى الموسم الثاني🙂

[ضحى صلاح · Rating 5 out of 5]

من الروايات اللي استمتعت بترجمتها
هتلاقوها موجودة على منصة ستوري تيل.. استمتعوا.

[Sandra (johnnylyserg) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Honestly, I went into the story expecting something like S.L.Grey's The Apartment, so when the book turned out to be a detective mystery using ghost-like elements for story improvement, you can imagine how disappointed I was.

A family of three moves from Scotland to Stockholm, Sweden as the wife got a promising start a of a desperately needed new carrier.
The father volunteers to be a stay-at-home dad for their little toddler son.
Soon, he starts hearing childlike footsteps in the corridor even though his son is fast asleep in his room. Crayon drawings appear on the wall, but are way out of reach for his son to have drawn by himself. And a child is crying somewhere, but nobody else seems to hear it.
Soon he learns that the apartment was the scene of a crime: A child gone missing and a single mother being the main suspect. It's their voices he hears, so now all he has to do is to investigate what really happened that night.

The story starts really slowly with the supernatural elements holding the interest of the reader long enough for the story to unfold. But really, I never felt this to be a horror story at all. The longer I stayed the more I felt like those elements were only there because the author otherwise feared the story would be too boring. And really, every event those elements have triggered could have been set in motion by any other element found in more conventional mystery novels. It could have been a nice and refreshing twist on those usual stories if the supernatural elements were used with a bit more wits.

This is only book one of a series currently including two books, but even though the ending is open enough to spark interest, I don't think I'll finish the series.

[Linda Karlsson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Så himla bra , kunde inte sluta att lyssna på den !!!!! Nu får man en annan syn på " barnlåtar " :)

[Manon Kouters · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good. Too bad it’s only on Storytel.

[Kelsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Keep checking to see if there is a 3 rd book to get translated

[Gopa Thakur · Rating 3 out of 5]

The ending was unexplained maybe it would get covered in Book 2. Overall okay. Liked the Swedish cultural nuances.