'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery' The TimesWhile on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body. Shaky even on her best days, Vesta is also alone, and new to the area, having moved here after the death of her husband. Her brooding about the note grows quickly into a full-blown who was Magda and how did she meet her fate? From the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen comes this razor-sharp, chilling and darkly hilarious novel about the stories we tell ourselves and how we strive to obscure the truth. __________________________ PRAISE FOR DEATH IN HER 'Routinely hailed as one of the most exciting young American authors working today' Guardian'A new kind of murder mystery' New Yorker 'Dark, devious' Observer'A fine line between shocking realism and the absurd' New Statesman'A brilliant off-kilter detective story' Evening Standard'A beautiful novel' Sunday Times
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Death in Her Hands
von Ottessa Moshfegh
'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery' The TimesWhile on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body. Shaky even on her best days, Vesta is also alone, and new to the area, having moved here after the death of her husband. Her brooding about the note grows quickly into a full-blown who was Magda and how did she meet her fate? From the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen comes this razor-sharp, chilling and darkly hilarious novel about the stories we tell ourselves and how we strive to obscure the truth. __________________________ PRAISE FOR DEATH IN HER 'Routinely hailed as one of the most exciting young American authors working today' Guardian'A new kind of murder mystery' New Yorker 'Dark, devious' Observer'A fine line between shocking realism and the absurd' New Statesman'A brilliant off-kilter detective story' Evening Standard'A beautiful novel' Sunday Times
Aktuelle Rezensionen(5)
Rezension von J KIch fand das Buch super, es ist mal was anderes als sonst. Es liest sich gut wenn man selbst auch gerne sich viel selbst ausmalt bzw. viel nachdenkt. meiner Meinung nach kann man gut in die Person springen und sich das perfekt ausmalen was Sie sieht (ist mir wichtig in einem guten Buch damit man sich darin verlieren kann). Ist vielleicht nicht für jeden was aber wenn man gerne etwas möchte mit Spannung und viel Gedanken ist das Buch top! 👍🤌
Rezension von AntoniaVery weird but I loved it. Read this if you like unreliable narrators and not knowing what is going on
Rezension von lilli3.5/5 || So different from how I thought It would be. This isn’t a murder mystery, it’s a book about an old woman reflecting over her life and making up one for the person on that note she found. It’s a character study and therefor written very slowly and not plot focused at all. I still enjoyed it and there were a lot interesting thoughts but it didn’t meet my expectations at all so I cannot give it a better rating.
Rezension von lea 🦇In the beginning I was thrilled to read that the protagonist was an older woman. But as a Moshfegh fan I am quite disappointed. There were numbers of times this book bored me, made no sense to me, left so many plot holes. The book didn’t need the fatphobia of the protagonist and definitely not the death of the dog. At some points I stopped reading because Vesta annoyed me so much. Her death in the end makes everything I read just seem pointless.
Rezension von Laura HolzmeyerWhat should I write here.. It was a wild ride! 3.5-4