Mothers
- 304 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
Chris Power's stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends - at ancient Swedish burial sites, river crossings on Exmoor, and raucous Mexican weddings.
Chris Power je autorem, jehož díla se ponořila do hlubin lidské zkušenosti. Jeho psaní je známé svou pronikavou psychologickou hloubkou a pečlivě vybraným jazykem, který vtahuje čtenáře do složitých vnitřních světů jeho postav. Power se mistrně zabývá tématy identity, odcizení a hledání smyslu v moderním světě. Jeho schopnost zachytit jemné nuance lidských vztahů a existenční dilemata z něj činí významný hlas v současné literatuře.


Chris Power's stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends - at ancient Swedish burial sites, river crossings on Exmoor, and raucous Mexican weddings.
Robert is a struggling writer living in Berlin with his wife and two young daughters. One night he meets Patrick, an enigmatic stranger with a sensational story to tell: a ghostwriter for a Russian oligarch - recently found hanged - who is now being followed. But is he really in danger? Patrick's life strikes Robert as a fabrication, but one that comes to obsess him. He decides to use the other man, and his story. An elegant and atmospheric twist on the cat-and-mouse narrative, A Lonely Man is a novel of shadows, of the search for identity and the elastic nature of truth. As his association with Patrick hurtles towards tragedy, Robert must decide: are actual events the only things that give a story life, and are some stories too dangerous to tell?