Barbara de Lange Knihy

Strhujúci debut autorky svetového bestsellera Stehlík. Úprimná spoveď hlavného hrdinu Richarda Papena, ktorý sa v spomienkach vracia do svojich študentských rokov na malej vermontskej univerzite, kde našiel taký životný štýl, po akom vždy túžil – prenikne do skupiny bohatých a svetáckych študentov, ktorých si charizmatický profesor klasických jazykov vybral do svojho seminára. Richard, očarený novými priateľmi, vo svojej zaslepenosti netuší, že spáchali zločin, hoci sa mu to stalo takmer pred očami.

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.