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Laddar... Stopptid (2012)av Juli Zeh
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Juli Zeh’s powerful psychodrama combines the serene rapture of the underwater environment with the claustrophobic collapse of identity under pressure. It’s unpredictable, offbeat and edgy; unsettling and almost incidentally erotic. Self-centred Sven the diving instructor has held himself at a distance from everyone in his adult life. He’s abandoned a career in the law; shuns his homeland, sneers at his countrymen and barely commits the time of day to his long-term relationship with a woman who has loved him since she was a child. Enter Jola, a physically compelling but emotionally insecure magnetic young actress, whose sexual manipulations and emotional machinations destroy Sven’s defences and leave him frighteningly vulnerable. Jola wields her sexuality and her vulnerability as potent weapons, goading her partner Theo at one moment and seeking his support the next. They are like the couple from hell at a dinner party, constantly sniping at each other, and ensnaring any unwary bystanders in their escalating conflict. The violence threatens to tip from verbal to physical at any moment – and inevitably, blood will be spilled… More detail about this book on the Murder Mayhem blog here: http://murdermayhemandmore.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/decompression-suffocation-of... Intelligent and absorbing, Decompression is easily Juli Zeh’s most accessible novel to date. It’s nothing like as weird as her earlier novel, Dark Matter (which I also adored), but still strays far from the path of the typical action-adventure crime-thriller. 9/10 In Decompression by Juli Zeh, Sven and his girlfriend, who left Germany years ago, have a deep sea diving business on the island of Lanzarote. They cater to the tourists who come to visit. When two new customers, German tourists, show up, Sven finds himself attracted to the woman, Jola von der Pahlen, an actress on a soap opera. Her older boyfriend, Theo Hast, is a writer who feels he is superior to everyone around him. The story is told from Sven's point of view and through Jola's diary entries. Clearly there is a cat and mouse game going on, but no one seems to know the reason behind it or how high the stakes are going to go. Although it does have a few elements of a psychological thriller, this is more of a character study of jealousy and lies with some abuse thrown into the mix. Decompression by Juli Zeh is a so-so novel for me. While it is well written, I think it may have lost some of the flow of the original German. But even more than that, I detested every single loathsome character in this book, which made it hard to care what happened to them, no matter how intriguing the set up or exotic the local. Disclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of Knopf Doubleday for review purposes. This is not going to be a long review. To be honest, it's been two months since I read DECOMPRESSION by Juli Zeh and the most excitement I can gather when I think of it is a mild, distracted, "meh." That sounds really bad, but I was so taken in by the interesting cover and the synopsis and setting (The Canary Islands!) that I couldn't help but imagine something exciting and thrilling. What I got, instead, was something that made me feel slightly dirty and more than a little frustrated that I spent so much of my valuable free time trying to muddle through the whole thing. Read the rest of this review at The Lost Entwife on August 18, 2014. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Sven har tröttnat på sitt arbete som jurist, ja på Tyskland över huvud taget, och flyttat till Lanzarote där han livnär sig på att lära rika tyskar dyka. Tillsammans med Antje, mer kollega än flickvän kanske, driver han sin exklusiva verksamhet avsides på lavaön. Dit kommer Jola och Theodor, hon en ung och vacker skådespelerska som drömmer om att lämna TV-såporna för storfilmer, han en författare med lång skrivpaus bakom sig och osäker framtid. De är beredda att betala väldigt mycket för nya, starka upplevelser. Och Sven levererar. Juli Zeh utnyttjar denna storslagna men sterila miljö för att låta alla möjliga laddningar stiga till ytan: politiska, kulturella och inte minst sexuella. I Tyskland har hon, trots sin ungdom, länge varit respekterad. Med Stopptid blev hon en bästsäljare. »Juli Zeh har lyckats med en rysande vacker psykthriller.« Stern »Med raffinemang spinner Juli Zeh trådarna i sin historia om sanning och lögn och fångar läsaren i nätet. Briljant.« Cosmopolitan »Juli Zehs triangeldrama kan utan problem mäta sig med den amoraliska thrillerns mästarinna, Patricia Highsmith.« Brigitte [Publit] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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