A collection of five suspenseful short stories in which ordinary people are drawn into a series of extraordinary events. Don't Look Now takes place in Venice, where a pair of psychic sisters claim they can see the dead child of a bereaved couple. The Breakthrough is set in England at a desolate research station where weird experiments are performed. Not After Midnight takes place in Crete, where a schoolmaster on a painting holiday becomes involved with a mysterious couple and relics of the past. A Border-line Case is set in Ireland, where a woman seeks the meaning of her father's enigmatic deathbed cry. And The Way of the Cross takes place in Jerusalem, where the members of a guided tour face some unpleasant facts about themselves.
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Don't Look Now
A collection of five suspenseful short stories in which ordinary people are drawn into a series of extraordinary events. Don't Look Now takes place in Venice, where a pair of psychic sisters claim they can see the dead child of a bereaved couple. The Breakthrough is set in England at a desolate research station where weird experiments are performed. Not After Midnight takes place in Crete, where a schoolmaster on a painting holiday becomes involved with a mysterious couple and relics of the past. A Border-line Case is set in Ireland, where a woman seeks the meaning of her father's enigmatic deathbed cry. And The Way of the Cross takes place in Jerusalem, where the members of a guided tour face some unpleasant facts about themselves.
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Reviewed by JacquiIch kaufte das Buch aus zwei Gründen: Erstens sah ich den Film "Don't look now", der auf einer short story von Daphne du Maurier beruht und zweitens las ich "Rebecca" von ihr und mochte dieses Buch schon besonders. Diese Kurzgeschichten sind wunderbar geschrieben, haben alle etwas Erschreckendes an sich, wenn auch subtil. Jede Geschichte behandelt verschiedene menschliche Abgründe und das macht Daphne du Maurier wirklich auf fantastische und spannende Weise! Meine Lieblingsgeschichte ist "Don't look now", aber auch "The Breakthrough". Letzteres ist sogar schon ziemlich dystopisch. Angsteinflößend, aber auch erstaunlich, das trifft es ziemlich gut. Klare Lesempfehlung, vor allem auf Englisch!