A 52 year-old photographer and a 41 year-old anatomy professor are jurors sequestered during a sensational three-week trial: a toddler murdered by one of his twin sisters. At the court appointed cut-rate motel off the interstate, they fall into an intense, furtive affair, but it is only during deliberations that the lovers learn they are on opposing sides of the case. Suddenly they look at one another through an altogether different lens. After the trial, the photographer returns to her much older husband amidst an ongoing media frenzy over the case. But the judge has received an anonymous letter about the affair, and she is preparing to release the jurors names. From that point on, the photographer's "one last dalliance before she is too old" takes on profoundly personal and moral consequences, as The Body in Question moves to its affecting, powerful, and surprising conclusion.*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***
Jill Ciment Poradie kníh (chronologicky)
20. máj 1955
Jill Ciment vo svojej tvorbe skúma zložitosť ľudských vzťahov a hľadanie identity. Jej próza sa vyznačuje prenikavým vhľadom do psychológie postáv a precíznym jazykovým spracovaním. Cimentová sa zaoberá témami pamäti, straty a odolnosti tvárou v tvár životným výzvam. Jej diela čitateľov nútia zamýšľať sa nad tichými drámami, ktoré sa odohrávajú v každodennom živote.



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