The Dynamite Room - Couverture souple

Hewitt, Jason

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1471127419 ISBN 13 : 9781471127410

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

July 1940. Eleven-year-old Lydia walks through a village in rural Suffolk on a baking hot day. She is wearing a gas mask. The shops and houses are empty, windows boarded up and sandbags green with mildew, the village seemingly deserted. Leaving it behind, she strikes off down a country lane through the salt marshes to a large Edwardian house -- the house she grew up in. Lydia finds it empty too, the windows covered in black-out blinds. Her family is gone. Late that night he comes, a soldier, gun in hand and heralding a full-blown German invasion. There are, he explains to her, certain rules she must now abide by. He won't hurt Lydia, but she cannot leave the house. Is he telling the truth? What is he looking for? Why is he so familiar? And how does he already know Lydia's name? Eerie, thrilling and piercingly sad, The Dynamite Room evokes the great tradition of war classics yet achieves a strikingly original and contemporary resonance. Hypnotically compelling, it explores, in the most extreme of circumstances, the bonds we share that make us human.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

It was all her doing. She had cried wolf, and the wolf had come.
July, 1940. 11 year-old Lydia walks through a village in rural Suffolk on a baking hot day. She is wearing a gas mask. The shops and houses are empty, windows boarded up and sandbags green with mildew; the village is deserted. Leaving it behind, she strikes off down a country lane to a large Edwardian house - the house she grew up in. But Lydia finds it empty too, the windows covered in black-out blinds. Her family are gone.
Late that night he comes, a soldier, gun in hand and heralding a full-blown German invasion. He is part of a reconnaissance mission, heralding a full-blown German invasion. There are, he explains to her, certain rules she must now abide by. He won't hurt Lydia, but she cannot leave the house.
Is he telling the truth? What is he looking for? Why is he so familiar? And how does he already know Lydia's name?
Eerie, thrilling and piercingly sad, The Dynamite Room evokes the great tradition of war classics yet achieves a strikingly original and contemporary resonance. Hypnotically compelling, it explores, in the most extreme of circumstances, the bonds we share that make us human.

Revue de presse :

'Suspenseful and powerful. A novel of great humanity that exposes the absurd contradictions of war' Samantha Harvey
'Superb. Absorbing, suspenseful and with a beautifully poetic touch' Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall
'Clever and unsettling, this most unconventional of war stories had me totally gripped' Shelley Harris, author of Jubilee

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1471127419
• ISBN 13: 9781471127410
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384