THE FINAL SOLUTION - Couverture souple

Chabon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007196032 ISBN 13 : 9780007196036

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

A brilliant reworking of the detective story by the much-acclaimed Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & KLAY. In THE FINAL SOLUTION, Michael Chabon has crafted a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that reimagines the classic 19th-century detective story. In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year-old man, vaguely remembered by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with other people. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African grey parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out? A top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case - the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot - beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth? Subtle revelations lead the reader to a wrenching resolution. This brilliant homage is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

“One of the best-written American novels published this fall . . . an experiment by a master.” (The New York Sun)

“A profound pleasure.” (New York magazine)

“Delightful...and deceptively profound...Chabon shows his greatness.” (Louisville Courier Journal)

“Simple and startlingly sad...Chabon has created a minor masterpiece.” (Hartford Courant)

“A haunting novella.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Brilliant and unswervingly entertaining.” (The Forward)

“The writing is everything that Chabon’s fans expect--gorgeous, muscular, mildly melancholic...wonderfully executed.” (Baltimore Sun)

“Packed with gorgeous writing...a knockout. You’ll be done before you know it. Then you might well read it again.” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

“Michael Chabon, is, simply, the coolest writer in America.” (Christian Science Monitor)

“Chabon’s writing here is elegant and limber...[The Final Solution] is a little mystery story with big ideas.” (San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of 2004))

“A knockout...you’ll be done before you know it. Then you might well read it again.” (Denver Post)

“Watching Chabon skillfully zigzag between literary and genre is half the fun of the book...refreshing.” (Miami Herald)

“Exuberant...the real mystery is how Chabon managed to fit so much hope and humanity into such a brief tale.” (BookPage)

“Infused with a graceful, elegiac atmosphere...wrought with innovative construction, glittering with epiphany...remarkable.” (Buffalo News)

Présentation de l'éditeur

In The Final Solution, Michael Chabon has condensed his boundless vision to craft a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic nineteenth-century detective story.

In deep retirement in the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out -- a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case -- the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot -- beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth? Subtle revelations lead the reader to a wrenching resolution.

This brilliant homage is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.

Performed by Michael York

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0007196032
• ISBN 13: 9780007196036
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 144