Título: Death in Her Hands - a Novel
Autor: Ottessa Moshfegh
Sinopse: From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds an ominous note on a walk in the woods. While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body." But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one. Becoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate. With very little to go on, she invents a list of murder suspects and possible motives for the crime. Oddly, her suppositions begin to find correspondences in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to fade into menacing certainty. As her investigation widens, strange dissonances accrue, perhaps associated with the darkness in her own past; we must face the prospect that there is either an innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one. A triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both reflect the truth and keep us blind to it. Once again, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned, and the stakes have never been higher. Acabamento: Paperback. Peso: 372g. Dimensões: 21.03 x 14 x 1.88.
Contexto da obra
Dentro do catálogo, este livro pode ser situado a partir do tema, da autoria e da proposta editorial. “Death in Her Hands – a Novel”, de Ottessa Moshfegh, publicado pela editora Penguin Usa, em 2020 e com 272 páginas, integra a categoria Romance - Estrangeiro. Esse enquadramento pode tornar mais clara a proposta do livro e o tipo de interesse que ele costuma despertar.
Editora: Penguin Usa
Páginas: 272
Ano: 2020
Edição: 1ª EDIÇÃO
Linguagem: Inglês
ISBN:
ISBN13: 9781984880833
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora PENGUIN USA costumam trazer narrativas que transitam entre o imaginativo e o analítico, com histórias que exploram desde mitos pessoais até investigações científicas do comportamento humano. O catálogo oferece experiências de leitura que mesclam ritmo envolvente e reflexões profundas, como em relatos que combinam fantasia e realidade, ou em ensaios que desvendam padrões invisíveis da vida cotidiana. Há obras que exploram conflitos íntimos, dilemas morais e sociais, e outras que apresentam estudos culturais e históricos com linguagem acessível. O tom varia entre o narrativo e o didático, com textos que podem ser tanto emotivos e pessoais quanto informativos e estruturados.
