Richard Olehla Boeken

Monografie pohlíží na současnou americkou prózu v kontextu společenských a historických změn, které se odehrály po teroristických útocích 11. září 2001 v New Yorku. Autor analyzuje přístup amerických autorů k tématu 11. září a problematiku konce světa obecně: konec je zde chápán jako pozitivní událost, jako příležitost dozvědět se více o povaze světa, ve kterém žijeme. Interpretace děl se však neomezuje pouze na současnost, přináší i zajímavé vhledy do kulturní historie Spojených států.

"When jailed billionaire Charles Merrick hints publicly that he has stashed a fortune in an offshore cache, a school of sharks converges upon his release from federal prison. Among his swindled victims is Judge Hammond Birk, the man who saved Gibson Vaughn's life when he was a troubled teenager. Now Gibson intends to repay that debt by recovering Merrick's victims' money. But Gibson isn't the only one on the trail of the hidden fortune. The promise of billions has drawn a horde of ruthless treasure hunters, including an edgy ex-con, a female bartender with a mysterious history, a Chinese spy with a passion for fly-fishing, and a veritable army of hardened mercenaries. To stay ahead of the sharks and win justice for his mentor, Gibson will need all his formidable skills. But at the end of the road, he'll still have to face 'Poisonfeather'--a geopolitical secret that just might get Gibson killed...or worse." --from publisher

A decade ago Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard-- then a senator, now a powerful vice president-- disappeared. For legendary hacker and marine Gibson Vaughn, Suzanne had been like a sister. When Gibson is asked to help with new evidence, he jumps at the chance to uncover what happened all those years ago. Using his military and technical prowess, he soon discovers multiple conspiracies surrounding the Lombard family-- and he encounters ruthless political players who will do anything to silence him and his team.

Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanising sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier. Together, the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book, and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way. Lullaby is a comedy/drama/tragedy. In that order. It may also be Chuck Palahniuk's best book yet.

Emma Cline voert ons mee naar de explosieve zomer van 1969, naar de zinderend hete straten van Marin County, Californië, in het hoofd van een 14-jarig meisje, de verveelde en zwaarmoedige Evie. Ze staat eenzaam tussen twee pasgescheiden ouders, vol van een wanhopige rusteloosheid, maar vindt steun in de toevallige vriendschap met het oudere en intrigerende meisje Suzanne. Verbijsterd dat er eindelijk iemand is die haar ziet staan, komt Evie al snel terecht in een commune waarvan zeer binnenkort de hele wereld de naam zal weten, en wordt ze verleid door diens waanzinnige leider. Sneller dan ze ooit had kunnen vermoeden wordt ze meegezogen in een wereld vol misdaad en geweld. Emma Cline's verhaal over een stuurloos meisje tegen het einde van de roerige jaren '60 levert een ontzagwekkend, trefzeker onderzoek op naar de werking van macht, hoe angstaanjagend beïnvloedbaar een pubermeisje kan zijn, en hoe ver zo'n meisje zal gaan om gezien en geliefd te worden.

Erst deine Tochter und dann du ... Der Albtraum einer jeden Mutter: Die fünfjährige Anna ist aus der Schule verschwunden. Rechtsanwältin Julia ist außer sich vor Sorge. Wurde sie entführt? Ist sie tot? Sechs Tage und Nächte voller Angst, voller Selbstvorwürfe. Bis am siebten Tag der wahre Schrecken erst beginnt und Julia begreift, dass das wahre Ziel nicht ihre Tochter Anna ist, sondern sie selbst …

One Tuesday in May, the lives of Blair Albert and Bunny Marie Heath were to change course forever. Recently separated in a pioneering and desperately risky operation (the boys were conjoined anteriorly at the trunk), and with four weeks leave in London to acclimatise, the Heaths were suddenly at large for the first time in their lives.