: Bompiani Editore
Year 2010 475 pages - Hardcover
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author http://www.simonbeckett.com/
The plot: The sudden death of Sarah
leaves the London-based photographer Ben Murray just before the responsibility of raising Jacob, the autistic child that his wife had from a previous relationship. But the discovery of her clothing with a chest containing some newspaper clipping on the abduction of a child throws Ben into confusion: who is really Jacob? In an attempt to give an answer to this agonizing question, Ben confronts the father of the kidnapped child, John Kale, a veteran of Iraq and Ireland North where the experience of war and the tragedies of life have left deep scars, upsetting the balance of mind to a level that will threaten the very life of Jacob. In an escalation of tension develops as a head-on collision between two obsessions as disturbing and relentless, "for the sake of Jacob, to a shocking ending.
An autistic child, torn between two families. What can a parent get to take control of your child? Very often we act without thinking of the consequences of actions, without giving priority to the needs of a child, but only for a selfish right.
That's what this book talks about, but I just can not to fall into the category of thriller .. I displaces and confuses me. It looks more like a melodrama, the kind that fill the news. The usual diatribe of the children fought, although in this case is not between two divorced parents, but between two families.
While continuing to appreciate the ability to create suspense right to Beckett, to lead to a frantic desire to reach the end of the book, I was not involved in a particular way.
I can not say that certainly does not deserve to be read, but who thinks to find the "usual" Beckett will be disappointed.
That's what this book talks about, but I just can not to fall into the category of thriller .. I displaces and confuses me. It looks more like a melodrama, the kind that fill the news. The usual diatribe of the children fought, although in this case is not between two divorced parents, but between two families.
While continuing to appreciate the ability to create suspense right to Beckett, to lead to a frantic desire to reach the end of the book, I was not involved in a particular way.
I can not say that certainly does not deserve to be read, but who thinks to find the "usual" Beckett will be disappointed.
Writer: Simon Beckett
after the drummer in rock band, attended a Masters in English Literature and teaches in Spain. Back home, since 1992, writes as a columnist and freelance journalist for The Times, The Independent on Sunday Review, "The Daily Telegraph, The Observer and other major British newspapers and magazines. Memorable its investigations in the front line of police drug raids in the sordid world of brothels or the secrets of the Research Centre of Forensic Anthropology in Tennessee. As a published novelist Fine Lines (1994), Animals (1995, winner of the Chandler's Marlowe Society as Best International Crime Novel), Where There's Smoke (1997), and Owning Jacob (1998). Simon Beckett is now married and lives in Sheffield.
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