In the Garden of the Fugitives
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| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Auflage | 2018 |
| Seiten | 320 |
| Format | 15,5 x 23,4 x 2,3 cm |
| Trade paperback (UK) | |
| Gewicht | 423 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 024132517X |
| EAN | 9780241325179 |
| Bestell-Nr | 24132517EA |
Vita is South African but she lives in Australia. Royce is older, American, a ghost from her days as a freshman on a Harvard scholarship. After years of silence, Royce writes to Vita, determined to excavate the past. The conversation that follows is an adversarial dance, a duelling confession and a mutual reckoning, digging through the archaeologies of desire, shame and power.
§A literary tour-de-force of power, guilt and obsession - two people stalk each other through the shadowy, tangled web of the past - man and woman caught in a dangerous game of confession, each partly predator and partly prey...
'It has been almost fifteen years. I've thought about you often, mostly unkindly. But there: I have thought about you.'
Nearly twenty years after Vita broke off contact with Royce, he writes to her, determined to excavate the past. He is older than her, a ghost from her university days, a former benefactor she has tried hard to forget. In his own youth, Royce spent two fateful summers working on a dig in Pompeii with a woman he would later memorialize with a scholarship - the same one that Vita eventually received.
From opposite sides of the world, Royce and Vita enter into an adversarial dance: an attempt to settle old accounts. Profoundly addictive and unsettling, In the Garden of the Fugitives is a thrilling psychological examinatio n of what happens when the lines are blurred between victim and predator, between loyalty and obsession.
Praise for Ceridwen Dovey
'Strange and richly imagined, haunting and atmospheric... [Dovey] unflinchingly illuminates human nature' The New York Times onOnly the Animals
'Painfully beautiful, heartbreaking and riveting... Dovey voices the uncomfortable, she speaks the unspeakable... An ambitious book with a fable-like surface and a whole churning world beneath' Guardian onOnly the Animals
Rezension:
This psychological thriller examines what happens when the lines between victim and predator, loyalty and obsession become blurred' Mail on Sunday
