Kuya kufuneka silinde kude kube sekupheleni kwehlobo ukuze sinike uphononongo oluhle lwentsha Stephen King. Elinye lala mabali athatha iindlela zakudala zoKumkani wokuqala phakathi kweziganeko ezingaqhelekanga nezibi, okanye zombini ezi zinto zidityaniswe ngokugqibeleleyo kwintelekelelo apho yonke into inendawo eya kweyona verisimilitude iphambeneyo.
Ngesi sihlandlo, ishishini elimnyama elingagqitywanga leyelenqe lijikeleza umlinganiswa owaqala njengesibini kwi-Bill Hodges trilogy. U-Holly Gibney owavela kwiprofayile yokuqala elula kakhulu kwaye wafumana umhlaba kwaye waba negalelo kwi-renet yabantu abanomdla kwindalo iphela yeKumkani. Ngayo iziza zandisa kweyona noir ibandayo esele iqhushumbe ebusweni bethu "Undwendwe" kunye "neMithetho yeGazi". Ke, kwakhona, masibambene ngezandla noHolly ukuwela imida yobubi obenziwe inyama...
Xa uPenny Dahl eqhagamshelana nabagcini beFinders ukuze bafumane uncedo ekufumaneni intombi yakhe, into ethile kwilizwi elibi lomfazi linyanzela uHolly Gibney ukuba athathe umsebenzi.
Umgama omfutshane ukusuka kwindawo apho uBonnie Dahl wanyamalala khona, ootitshala bahlala uRodney noEmily Harris. Bayi-quintessence yokuhlonipheka koBourgeois: isibini esitshatileyo se-octogenarian esitshatileyo sabafundi abadla umhlala-phantsi. Akukho mntu unokuqikelela ukuba, kwigumbi elingaphantsi kwendlu yabo ecocekileyo eneencwadi, bafihla imfihlo enxulumene ngokuthe ngqo nokulahleka kukaBonnie.
Banobuqili, banomonde kwaye bangenalusini, kwaye baya kunyanzela uHolly ukuba asebenzise izakhono zakhe ngokupheleleyo kwaye abeke umngcipheko kuyo yonke into ukuba ufuna ukuvala eyona nto imnyama awakhe wajongana nayo.
Ngoku ungathenga inoveli ethi "Holly", ngo Stephen King, Apha:
