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Și ca să sparg gheața, două propuneri din partea mea:
The Black Notebook de Patrick Modiano
"Modiano is a literary novelist, right? After all, he won the 2015 Nobel prize. No, or rather – yes and no. Modiano haunts that twilight realm between what critics call the literary novel and crime fiction. His work is replete with private detectives, gangsters, missing people, mystery and intrigue. It replicates the structure of the crime novel then strips it into stark realism with its excision of motivation and resolution. In The Black Notebook, Jean, a writer in his late middle-age, discovers a notebook he kept as a teenager. He begins to look up people he knew and finds that his memory of the past is a fiction. Modiano’s novels are like a cross between Hitchcock and Lynch, relentlessly charting the past’s evasions and elisions and reminding us that our lives are in fact mystery novels without explanation, justice or closure."

The Master Key de Masako Togawa
"This was a strange, surprising delight. It's set in a Japanese apartment complex/boarding house for unmarried women. The entire building is going to be picked up and moved to make way for a new road – the residents are assured that they will barely notice it moving, so much so that they could put a glass of water on the table and it won't spill. The fact that just about all of them DO put a glass of water on the table and then stare it it shows you how deeply unexciting their lives are. However, there is a dead child buried beneath the building, and soon all will be revealed.
My favourite part of this book was the characters – they're so brilliantly drawn, and so strange. Each has her own history and quirks, all of which come to light after the theft of a master key which unlocks any apartment door. One woman, a professor, obsessively copies out her late husband's research papers, even though they're gibberish. A hoarder digs through the kitchen bins to steal fish heads to stave off the calcium deficiency she falsely believes she has. A failed violinist tells a child that her paralysed middle finger is caused by witchcraft. As the women's stories unfold, the sense of loneliness, regret and claustrophobia builds. Also, Simon Grove's translation is great – the prose flows beautifully, and I was hooked from the start. "
Algernon (Darth Anyan) wrote: "modiano e superb."Să înțeleg că avem o susținere pentru Iarba nopților, titlul ediției de la Polirom a acestei nuvele?
Doua nominalizari si doua sustineri?! :)Eu as incepe cu Agatha Christie fiindca genul mi-e strain sau cu Osog-Brasoveanu ca tot mi-a propus sa citesc mai multi români anul asta dar ambele propuneri ma atrag, mai ales daca Modiano’s novels are like a cross between Hitchcock and Lynch
Deci Mondiano pentru mine.
Ai citit ceva de Agatha Christie până acum? Dacă nu, probabil ți-aș propune să începi cu Zece negri mititei, sau cum s-o mai fi numind acum (în spiritul corectitudinii politice diverși editori au tot schimbat titlul cărții).
Gabriel wrote: "Algernon (Darth Anyan) wrote: "modiano e superb."Să înțeleg că avem o susținere pentru Iarba nopților, titlul ediției de la Polirom a acestei nuvele?"
OK
Sustin The Master Key, si vin si eu cu doua propuneri: The Son de Jo Nesbø si
Salvation of a Saint de Keigo Higashino
Nu am citit prima carte din serie, "The Devotion of Suspect X", dar am vazut filmul, si sunt curioasa.
Fiindca tot mai am o sustinere, dupa Modiano de mai devreme, bazat doar pe descrierea paginii cartii de pe Goodreads sustin si Salvation of a Saint. Greu de ales intre doi japonezi. Probabil o sa-i citesc pe amandoi.
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Tema lunii august, lună de concedii, soare, mare și vacanță va fi mister. De la roman polițist la thriller, vă aștept propunerile de cărți de strecurat în bagaj și de ținut treji noaptea...
Nominalizările vor fi deschise de acum până pe 15 august, urmând să fie alese, în funcție de susțineri, în jur de 5 cărți pentru votul final. Fiecare dintre voi are la dispoziție două nominalizări și două susțineri.
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Nominalizări (msg. 12):
1. 4 x The Black Notebook de Patrick Modiano
2. 3 x The Master Key de Masako Togawa
3. 3 x Salvation of a Saint de Keigo Higashino
4. 1 x The Son de Jo Nesbø