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Laddar... The Silent Patient (utgåvan 2019)av Alex Michaelides (Författare)
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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. Fantastic read! Honestly it’s not hard to figure out part of the ending but I certainly didn’t have it all sorted and it was an excellent twist. I really enjoyed Michaelides writing and the short chapters made it seem like a quick read. Great first novel and I hope he writes more. ( ) Jeez crumpets, what a miserable collection of flat, awful characters this was. No one was likeable or compelling. I call bullshit on a lot of the "psychotherapy" that happens here, and especially on the attitudes of the doctors and the way the ward is run. (Is this because of the unreliable narrator? Maybe? Who cares?) The story tripped along, but I never felt terribly engaged or particularly confident that I was going to be happy I stuck around to see how it came out. The twist made me go "Wait. Huh? Oh. I guess?" It felt tricksy and cheatsy instead of well-crafted. I felt like the author was being manipulative rather than performing excellent misdirection. What I *thought* was going on was a lot more compelling to me (and less outright twisty) than what really was. And even though I felt cheated by the twist, I'm not even particularly annoyed? It doesn't even rise to that. I shrugged at the thing generally, I shrugged at the twist, and now I shrug at the manipulation. For book club, or I probably would have stopped bothering about halfway through. How do you make a best-selling novel out of a story in which the main character, other than the narrator, remains silent? Alex Michaelides found a way in “The Silent Patient” (2019). Alicia Berenson, a gifted artist, is arrested for murdering her husband by shooting him in the face while he was tied to a chair. Questions remain, like how did she manage to tie him to the chair before shooting him? But she refuses to answer them or to say anything at all. For years. Theo Faber is a 42-year-old psychotherapist determined to find answers, if not from Alicia then from others who knew her before the killing. Thus the novel becomes part psychological thriller and part murder mystery. Theo has personal problems of his own. He discovers that his beautiful wife is secretly meeting with another man. Rather than confronting her, he follows her, as well as the man she is having the affair with. He contemplates murder. Here the otherwise original novel becomes cliche — the psychotherapist may be as crazy as the patient. Things begin to come into focus when a silent Alicia hands Theo her secret diary, and at last she begins to speak. But Michaelides holds the final surprises for the exciting climax. This is a nearly first-rate novel that deserves its best-selling status. Alicia is found standing over her husband's body with blood all over her and a smoking gun in her hand. The cops charge her with murder. She does not say anything at all. She is remanded to a psychiatric hospital instead of prison. Theo is a psychotherapist who hopes to help her speak again so she can tell what happened the night her husband was murdered. Wow! I did not think I was going to like this as I am not a big fan of psychological thrillers, but I LOVED it! I don't want to tell too much because I don't want to ruin it. The writing is phenomenal. It draws you in from the first page. There is so much about the book that I liked and that shocked me. Never saw some of this stuff coming. WORTH THE READ!
Meet the hottest-tipped debut novelists of 2019 The Silent Patient is narrated by Theo Faber, a psychotherapist determined to discover why Alicia Berenson, a famous artist accused of murdering her husband, has refused to speak since her husband’s death. The therapeutic setting was inspired by Michaelides’s own experience. “Therapy is very important to me and has been a major part of my life,” he says. Running through the novel is the Greek myth of Alcestis, and Euripides’s play of the same name. The Alcestis theme is perhaps one of the reasons that The Silent Patient is finding such traction both among early readers and the tranche of movie executives who fought to option it. With its story of female sacrifice and the silencing of a woman post-trauma, it feels highly relevant in a post #MeToo world. “It’s about silence as a weapon,” Michaelides says. “And it was very clear in my head when I was writing the book that Alicia was surrounded by these men who were imprisoning her. Like Alcestis, Alicia is trapped and she’s denied a voice. It’s a lifetime of being made to think that she wasn’t worthy, she wasn’t good enough, and maybe that’s something that a lot of women [readers] have been responding to.” The novel has already been optioned by Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, with Michaelides due to write the screenplay, a fitting circularity for a novelist who has spent the past 15 years working as a screenwriter. PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
2019 års stora thriller-hype »Smart, sofistikerat berättande genomsyrat av genuin spänning.« Lee Child »Fullkomligt briljant!« Stephen Fry Alicia Berensons liv är till synes perfekt. Hon är en känd konstnär gift med en eftertraktad modefotograf. Tillsammans bor de i ett lyxhus med stora fönster och utsikt över en park i ett av Londons mest fashionabla områden. En kväll kommer Alicias make hem från en modefotografering - och Alicia avlossar fem skott i hans ansikte, för att därefter aldrig mer säga ett ord. Alicias vägran att prata eller komma med någon som helst form av förklaring förvandlar en våldsam familjetragedi till någonting mycket större: Ett mysterium som fångar allmänhetens fantasi och gör Alicia - den tysta patienten - ökänd. Theo Faber, rättsmedicinsk psykoterapeut, har väntat länge när han till sist får chansen att ta sig an fallet. Hans besatthet av Alicia - av att få henne att prata och få fram sanningen om det brutala mordet på hennes make, leder honom allt djupare in i hans eget psyke och hans egna motiv, tills det hotar att förgöra honom... ALEX MICHAELIDES är född på Cypern och numera bosatt i USA. Hans kriminaldebut Den tysta patienten [The Silent Patient] har fått explosiv uppmärksamhet och blivit 2019 års stora thriller-hype, med återkommande referenser till Paula Hawkins Kvinnan på tåget och A. J. Finns Kvinnan i fönstret. Boken har hyllats av kollegor och kritiker och är redan en stor försäljningssuccé i USA. Filmrättigheterna har köpts av Brad Pitts produktionsbolag. [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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