Asta's Book
Autor Barbara Vineen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2009
For a good, absorbing, well-told story, you could hardly better the unveiling of Asta's secret'Sunday Times
It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold the key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing child. It falls to Asta's granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before.
'A dazzling domestic thriller'Guardian
'Obsessively readable'Sunday Telegraph
'Engrossing . . . a mixture of biography, true crime and romance people with vivid minor players and red with herrings'Independent on Sunday
'Absolutely enthralling ... the best yet from the Vine/Rendell bureau. Essentialreading' Literary Review
'Simply put, Vine is one of the greatest writers ever' Scott Turow
Asta's Bookis a modern crime masterpiece and will be enjoyed by readers of P.D. James, Ian Rankin and Scott Turow.
Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym, includingA Fatal InversionandKing Solomon's Carpetwhich both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include:A Dark Adapted Eye;The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday PresentandThe Child's Child.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141040455
ISBN-10: 0141040459
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141040459
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Barbara
Vinewas
the
pen-name
ofRuth
Rendell,
and
Viking
published
all
of
her
books
under
that
name.
Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, with worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, and regular Sunday Times bestsellers.
Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.
Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, with worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, and regular Sunday Times bestsellers.
Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.
Recenzii
Simply
put,
Vine
is
one
of
the
greatest
writers
ever