A young writer always daring with the most unexpected cocktails without fear of a hangover. Because starting to write or go about taking a job is what he has, that from time to time, if the wickers are good, he ends up growing a great work without hardly realizing it. For julia phillips it will surely be a surprise to discover in his novel that noir noir interspersed with existentialism well bound (maybe even from the most absolute improvisation). The exquisite result is fresh as well as eerily deep.
And yes, it looked good as it could have been a churro. Millions of works sleep the sleep of the righteous in drawers of budding writers or upstart storytellers. Because the spark happens very from time to time and, when Julia's career is consolidated, then we will have to think that she has been able to tame that ingenuity so that the job is imposed on a chance that is rarely repeated. Meanwhile let's enjoy a work, as I say, round.
Synopsis
On a peaceful August afternoon, Aliona and Sofia, eleven and eight year old sisters, play by the sea. As they make their way home, a stranger offers to drive them in his car. They, confident before the friendliness of the stranger, accept. The girls are only alarmed when they see that they leave behind the detour they should have taken. When Aliona takes out her cell phone and the man snatches it from her hands, the sisters understand that they are in danger. The nightmare has just begun.
So it starts Missing, as a Black which takes place over the course of a year in the icy and remote region of Kamchatka, but soon reveals itself as much more. Undoubtedly there is a mystery to be solved: what uncertain fate awaits the Golosovskaya sisters? But, above all, the novel - structured in thirteen chapters that focus on as many female characters, all of them connected by the kidnapping of the girls - masterfully captures the impact that the terrible event will have on the lives of the women of Kamchatka and brings out the different forms of violence they suffer.
Victims of instability and helplessness, they feel that the land on which they walk could disappear at any moment, and they wonder what life will take from them next. Considered by American critics one of the most relevant literary irruptions of recent times, Julia Phillips has written a shocking novel that, thanks to its absorbing, sober and poetic style, and an enormous empathy towards its characters, stands as a hypnotic story of stories in which suspense, the most pressing denunciation and existential drift converge.
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