A Dead Hand (ePub)
A Crime in Calcutta: A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A travel writer is drawn into a strange criminal case, and an even stranger romantic affair, in a novel that brings India "brilliantly, blazingly to life" (The Washington Post).
When Jerry Delfont, an aimless, blocked travel writer, receives a letter...
When Jerry Delfont, an aimless, blocked travel writer, receives a letter...
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A travel writer is drawn into a strange criminal case, and an even stranger romantic affair, in a novel that brings India "brilliantly, blazingly to life" (The Washington Post).
When Jerry Delfont, an aimless, blocked travel writer, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs. Merrill Unger, he is intrigued. She informs him about a scandal, involving an Indian friend of her son's. Who is the dead boy, found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How and why did he die? And what is Jerry to make of a patch of carpet, and a package containing a human hand?
Jerry is swiftly captivated by the beautiful, mysterious Mrs. Unger-and revived by her tantric massages-but the circumstances surrounding the dead boy cause him increasingly to doubt the woman's motives and the exact nature of her philanthropy. Without much to go on, Jerry pursues answers from the teeming streets of Calcutta to Uttar Pradesh. It is a dark and twisted trail of obsession and need.
From the author of The Great Railway Bazaar, A Dead Hand is offers "an abundance of richly drawn characters . . . Theroux has used his travel writer's eye and ear and his novelist's imagination to craft a tense, disturbing, funny and horrifying book around all of them" (San Francisco Chronicle).
"The real pleasure is Theroux's talent for rendering place and his irreverent comments on everything from the British royals to pop culture, aging, and yes, the venerable Mother Teresa." -Publishers Weekly
When Jerry Delfont, an aimless, blocked travel writer, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs. Merrill Unger, he is intrigued. She informs him about a scandal, involving an Indian friend of her son's. Who is the dead boy, found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How and why did he die? And what is Jerry to make of a patch of carpet, and a package containing a human hand?
Jerry is swiftly captivated by the beautiful, mysterious Mrs. Unger-and revived by her tantric massages-but the circumstances surrounding the dead boy cause him increasingly to doubt the woman's motives and the exact nature of her philanthropy. Without much to go on, Jerry pursues answers from the teeming streets of Calcutta to Uttar Pradesh. It is a dark and twisted trail of obsession and need.
From the author of The Great Railway Bazaar, A Dead Hand is offers "an abundance of richly drawn characters . . . Theroux has used his travel writer's eye and ear and his novelist's imagination to craft a tense, disturbing, funny and horrifying book around all of them" (San Francisco Chronicle).
"The real pleasure is Theroux's talent for rendering place and his irreverent comments on everything from the British royals to pop culture, aging, and yes, the venerable Mother Teresa." -Publishers Weekly
Autoren-Porträt von Paul Theroux
PAUL THEROUX is the author of many highly acclaimed books. His novels include The Lower River and The Mosquito Coast, and his renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and Dark Star Safari. He lives in Hawaii and Cape Cod.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul Theroux
- 2017, 288 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- ISBN-10: 0547488718
- ISBN-13: 9780547488714
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2017
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“The real pleasure is Theroux’s talent for rendering place and his irreverent comments on everything from the British royals to pop culture, aging, and yes, the venerable Mother Teresa.” —Publishers Weekly“A novel of extremes—rationality and obsession, humanitarianism and selfishness, ecstasy and heartlessness.” —Kirkus Reviews
“An abundance of richly drawn characters . . .Theroux has used his travel writer’s eye and ear and his novelist’s imagination to craft a tense, disturbing, funny and horrifying book around all of them.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Theroux brings his best gifts as a travel writer to one of his walk-on-the-dark-side fables of masked identity and psychosexual quest . . . [His] writing is as feline and agile as ever, and his calibration of clue and revelation is nicely meted out . . . this story will lure you in, from its whodunit setup to its swift, unexpectedly visionary close.” —The Seattle Times
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