The Keep
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Publisher Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Part horror tale, part mystery, part romance ... utterly fantastic.”—O, The Oprah Magazine • The bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.
Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results.
And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan’s 2006 novel is a twisty, adventurous masterpiece of Gothic thrills. The story’s dual plot lines follow seemingly disparate scenarios: two cousins who reunite to turn a crumbling Eastern European castle into a an off-the-grid boutique hotel, and a teacher and student in a writing class in an American maximum security prison. Egan’s remarkable storytelling skills are on full display as she slowly reveals the terrible links between the two narratives—and weaves them together to form a single, unexpected thread. Suspenseful and layered, The Keep is the book equivalent of an M.C. Escher design—where “reality” is unnervingly changeable and the truth is whatever you want to believe.
