Perfidia
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
Perfidia inaugure le second Quatuor de Los Angeles, prélude au premier, encore plus ambitieux et qui reprend ses personnages devenus célébrissimes à l'époque de leur jeunesse. « C'est mon roman le plus ample, le plus détaillé sur le plan historique, le plus accessible sur le plan stylistique, et aussi le plus intime. Plaintif, mélancolique, il plonge dans la trahison morale de l'Amérique au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, avec l'internement de ses citoyens d'origine japonaise. Une histoire épique et populaire de Los Angeles en décembre 1941. Ce sera du jamais-vu », promet Ellroy.
Interview James Ellroy à Maupetit - Marseille
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ellroy launches his second L.A. Quartet with a sprawling, uncompromising epic of crime and depravity, with admirable characters few and far between. The action spans about three weeks during December 1941, opening the day before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with the deaths of four members of the Watanabe family, who were possibly victims of a ritual murder-suicide. A note left at the scene written in Japanese, disclaiming responsibility for a "looming apocalypse," suggests foreknowledge of the attack. The investigation and its ramifications are explored from the perspectives of the LAPD's Japanese crime-scene specialist Hideo Ashida; William Parker, the future LAPD head; and two figures familiar from Ellroy's earlier books Dudley Smith, a murderous and bent cop, and the enigmatic Kay Lake, who's roped into going undercover in L.A.'s communist community. Cynical schemes to profit from the planned internment of the Japanese may have played a part in the killings as well. This is as good a sample of Ellroy as any for newcomers, and old hands will find new perspectives on old characters intriguing. Author tour.
