Título: Road of Bones
Autor: Christopher Golden
Sinopse: An American documentarian travels a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden’s Road of Bones, a “tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell” (Stephen King) supernatural thriller.
Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness with a dim, dusky sky forever overhead, Siberia’s Kolyma Highway is 1200 miles of gravel packed permafrost within driving distance of the Arctic Circle. A narrow path where drivers face such challenging conditions as icy surfaces, limited visibility, and an average temperature of sixty degrees below zero, fatal car accidents are common.
But motorists are not the only victims of the highway. Known as the Road of Bones, it is a massive graveyard for the former Soviet Union’s gulag prisoners. Hundreds of thousands of people worked to death and left where their bodies fell, consumed by the frozen elements and plowed beneath the permafrost road.
Fascinated by the history, documentary producer Felix “Teig” Teigland is in Russia to drive the highway, envisioning a new series capturing Life and Death on the Road of Bones with a ride to the town of Akhust, “the coldest place on Earth”, collecting ghost stories and local legends along the way. Only, when Teig and his team reach their destination, they find an abandoned town, save one catatonic nine-year-old girl―and a pack of predatory wolves, faster and smarter than any wild animals should be.
Pursued by the otherworldly beasts, Teig’s companions confront even more uncanny and inexplicable phenomena along the Road of Bones, as if the ghosts of Stalin’s victims were haunting them. It is a harrowing journey that will push Teig beyond endurance and force him to confront the sins of his past.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Road of Bones”, de Christopher Golden, publicado pela editora Griffin, em 2022 e com 240 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Griffin
Páginas: 240
Ano: 2022-12-27
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1250875188
ISBN13: 9781250875181
Sobre a editora
O catálogo da Griffin reúne livros que transitam entre narrativas de forte apelo emocional e obras que exploram temas atuais com tom crítico e direto. Os livros da editora Griffin trazem desde relatos pessoais e histórias de superação até análises contundentes sobre questões sociais e culturais, frequentemente abordando conflitos internos e externos, como desafios pessoais, tensões políticas e dilemas éticos. A experiência de leitura varia entre textos mais densos e reflexivos e outros com ritmo ágil, que mesclam suspense, romance e até humor, criando um contraste que permite ao leitor navegar por diferentes atmosferas e estilos dentro do mesmo universo editorial.
