Barbara de Lange Knihy

Richard Papen sa ocitá medzi bohatými, vzdelanými intelektuálmi a s nadšením, unesený štúdiom i pocitom sebarealizácie, sa dychtivo púšťa uskutočňovať svoje čisté mladícke sny. O pár týždňov s prekvapením zisťuje, že osud mu doprial preniknúť do najužšieho okruhu vyvolených: do uzavretej skupiny piatich svetáckych, sebavedomých študentov. Očarený novými priateľmi, vo svojej zaslepenosti vôbec netuší, že spáchali zločin, hoci sa to stalo takmer pred jeho očami. Keď sa mu však zo všetkým zdôveria, spolu s nimi v ňom začne dozrievať presvedčenie, že musia zabiť aj svojho kolegu a priateľa, ktorý by mohol prezradiť ich tajomstvo a ohroziť ich budúcnosť.

Like The Lovely Bones and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Cammie McGovern’s breakout novel is at once a hypnotic thriller and an affecting portrait of people as real as our next-door neighbors. In Eye Contact, two children vanish in the woods behind their elementary school. Hours later, nine-year-old Adam is found alive, the sole witness to his playmate’s murder. But because Adam has autism, he is a silent witness. Only his mother, Cara, can help decode his behavior for the police. As the suspense ratchets, Eye Contact becomes a heart-stopping exploration of the bond between a mother and a very special child.

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last - inexorably - into evil.