Your House Will Pay
Autor Steph Chaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 sep 2020
Winner of the LA Times Book Prize, Best Mystery/ThrillerShortlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) DaggerShortlisted for the Macavity Awards, Best Mystery Novel Shortlisted for the Anthony Awards, Best NovelTwo families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget. Will the truth burn them both?'Masterful.' Ruth Ware'A searing examination of racial and family politics that is also an immaculately constructed whodunit.' Daily Telegraph, Summer Reads'Writing a page-turner about racial politics in the U.S.
is a delicate enterprise fraught with pitfalls, but Cha manages it superbly in this thought-provoking family saga.' Daily Mail, Summer ReadsGrace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city, but seemingly little else. Coming from different generations and very different communities, their paths wouldn't normally cross at all. As Grace battles confusion over her elder sister's estrangement from their Korean-immigrant parents, Shawn tries to help his cousin Ray readjust to life on the outside after years spent in prison.
But something in their past links these two families. As the city around them threatens to spark into violence, echoing events from their past, the lives of Grace and Shawn are set to collide in ways which will change them all forever. Beautifully written, and marked by its aching humanity as much as its growing sense of dread, Your House Will Pay is a powerful and moving family story, perfect for readers of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Paul Beatty's The Sellout.
What readers are saying:'Simultaneously thrilling and thoughtful... a terrific, fast-moving story of two characters trying to live with the truth.''A must-read.''This novel is wonderful... it will stick with you.''Sensitive and astute, it's a book we need right now, and it's a book that lingers, offering plenty to think about.''A smart, powerful, fully-engaged book that never once blinks or backs down or takes an easy out, and then nails one of the best endings I've ever read.'
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ISBN-10: 057134822X
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: FABER & FABER
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But when another shocking crime hits L.A., both the Park and Matthews families are forced to face down their shared history while navigating the tumult of a city on the brink of more violence.
Steph Cha delivers a bravura performance that captures our culture in crystalline detail. Your House Will Pay will be read for years.
Recenzii
“Taut . . . A dramatic page-turner . . . A deep dive into Los Angeles’ racial underbelly and tensions. It’s a timely book that showcases two cultures and two families forced to confront injustice, enduring anger, and profound loss.” — Los Angeles Times
“Impassioned. . . . [Cha] dives so deep into her characters because she believes that communicating their nuances across racial lines is essential. . . . A page-turner.” — USA Today
“Intricately structured. . . . A novel rich with incident and social observation.” — Wall Street Journal
“A mastery of form, Cha absolutely nails it. . . . It is absolutely brilliant and it keeps the pages turning.” — Today Show
“Elegant, suspenseful.” — The New York Times Book Review
“A propulsive, well-told, and most important of all, well-researched journey of two families. . . . Cha’s writing is memorable and often poetic.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“Riveting. . . . Engrossing. . . . Cha unflinchingly delves into the complex emotions that drive families, violence, and the need to survive. Your House Will Pay sets a new high for the talented Cha.” — Associated Press
“Compelling and risk-taking. . . . That Cha is drawn to contend with voices that don’t strictly represent her cultural heritage, while taking head-on one of the most devastating events in Los Angeles history, is admirable as well as ambitious. Cha is a remarkably generous writer.” — Los Angeles Review of Books
"Bracing." — Entertainment Weekly
“This L.A. noir mystery ties past and present together without resorting to easy answers.” — Washington Post
“ An explosive story of race, identity, and violence.” — Bustle
“Focusing on the lives of two Los Angelenos, Cha’s crime novel steps back from her usual superb P.I. books to go deeper, examining the tensions between the Korean-American and African-American communities.” — Boston Globe
“[A] gripping thriller set during a racially charged moment in L.A.’s history.” — Refinery 29
“[Cha] understands the messiness of justice and the complexity of human interaction. . . . One of the pleasures of the book is how deftly Cha renders so many layers of Los Angeles society. . . . All of this is related unsentimentally and is refreshingly depicted.” — Alta
“Gripping, incendiary. . . . An incisive and searing look at race relations, violence, and the intersection of disparate traumas. It’s a riveting, revelatory novel—a must-read.” — Nylon Magazine
“It’s an extremely delicate subject matter, and Cha does a masterful job imbuing each character with nuance and care.” — Buzzfeed
“A propulsive and well-plotted novel set in Los Angeles where crime and tension are at an all-time high.” — The Millions
“Powerful. . . . Unforgettable.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“Gripping, thoughtful. . . . May well be [Cha’s] breakout novel.” — Booklist (starred review)
“Ambitious. . . . Timely, morally complex.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A riveting thriller. . . . Shrewd.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Steph Cha’s Your House Will Pay has got it all. This suspense-filled page-turner about murder, repentance, and forgiveness draws from the fraught history of Los Angeles, where America’s immigrant dream bleeds into America’s racist nightmare. The novel would have been relevant thirty years ago. It will likely be relevant thirty years in the future.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“Steph Cha has taken a dark moment in Los Angeles’s violent history and cracked it wide open, creating a prism of understanding. . . . A touching portrait of two families bound together by a split-second decision that tore a hole through an entire city.” — Attica Locke, Edgar-Award winning author of Bluebird, Bluebird
“A haunting portrait of two lives, and a city, in turmoil, Your House Will Pay is both a crackling page-turner and a deeply felt work of eloquence and devastating insight. Riveting—Steph Cha firmly establishes herself as one of crime fiction’s most exciting voices.” — Elizabeth Little, author of Dear Daughter
“Steph Cha’s Your House Will Pay is extraordinary, a deeply-felt and sharply-observed exploration of the ties the bind, and divide, family, community, and nation. It’s moving, compelling, surprising, funny, explosive, and deeply human—an unforgettable novel.” — Lou Berney, author of November Road
“A gripping and deftly plotted story of two families, and two communities, set in the aftermath of a police shooting in Los Angeles. Steph Cha’s Your House Will Pay is a sensitive portrait of racial tension, buried memory, and the difficulty of reconciliation.” — Laila Lalami, author of The Other Americans
“A propulsive, lacerating novel about two families caught in the turmoil of a city and nation in crisis. Fearless, insightful, and alight with a brutal compassion, Your House Will Pay is a devastating exploration of grief, shame, and deeply buried truths.” — Catherine Chung, author of The Tenth Muse
“Steph Cha fearlessly explores the duality of LA’s promise and betrayal, its vision of new beginnings and the brutal divisions that cut between race and class. Cha takes her place as one of the city’s most eloquent storytellers in this soul-searching illumination.” — Walter Mosley, Edgar-winning author of Down the River Unto the Sea
Notă biografică
Steph Cha is the author of the Juniper Song crime trilogy. She's an editor and critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. A native of the San Fernando Valley, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two basset hounds.