av Orson Scott Card
En något udda historia - skriven av en av mina favoritförfattare. Trots att händelserna kan verka otroliga är ändå känslorna verkliga. Familjekonflikterna, kärleksproblemen och Quentins rastlöshet skildras med hjärta. Det blir mer och mer spännande ju fler blad man vänder och slutet går inte att förutsäga.
/Helena
Recensioner
"The story moves toward a powerful climax... strong character development and a mystery to solve... a rare pleasure gained." (Publishers Weekly)
"Card is able to take the reader for a ride... and keep the pages turning. Good as gold." (Dayton Daily News)
"Beautifully orchestrated, with above-average characters, but blandly unsurprising and lacking the gritty, discomfiting feel of reality underfoot." (Kirkus Reviews)
Baksidestext
Quentin Fears is a certifiable recluse, moving restlessly from town to town, investing the millions he's made as a software creator and always avoiding companionship. Until one night he meets his dream woman, Madeleine. Witty and beautiful, she is as uncomfortable with the world as he is. After a few whirlwind weeks of love, they marry.
Perfectly happy, there is only one thing that mars their complete bliss - Madeleine's strange, cantankerous family. And one more thing. There's an ancient family secret to which Madeleine holds the key. Soon Quentin realizes that only he can stop her from unleashing an ageless malevolence that will rule the world. But to do so, he must do the impossible - step outside himself and join the world he has always avoided.
Quentin must learn to trust, to hope, and to forgive. How he does that, while stabilizing a vengeful, volatile family, makes for an unsettling and poigant story that only acclaimed author Orson Scott Card could create.
Betyg:
ISBN:
0-06-109398-X
Antal sidor:
372
Förlag:
Harper Collins
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Böcker av
Orson Scott Card:
Children of the mind
Ender's shadow
Enders spel
First Meetings
Lost boys
Lovelock
Speaker for the dead
Treasure box
Xenocide
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