Eleanor Catton Livres

Un scandale éclate dans un lycée de jeunes filles : M. Saladin, le professeur de musique, est renvoyé pour avoir entretenu des relations coupables avec l'une de ses élèves, Victoria. Les camarades de classe de l'adolescente et sa jeune sœur se confient tour à tour à leur professeur de saxophone. Toutes sont en émoi, comme brusquement propulsées dans un monde de désir, de choix, de fantasmes dont elles pressentent obscurément qu'ils forgent la vie toute entière. Les adultes, englués dans leurs angoisses et leur lâcheté, essaient tant bien que mal d'endiguer l'onde de choc. L'affaire agite les conversations jusqu'à l'obsession et l'école de théâtre finit même par l'adapter en pièce de fin d'année, brouillant définitivement les frontières entre réalité et fiction. En cours de saxophone ou sur les planches, les jeunes personnages expérimentent leur propre désir et celui d'autrui. En sortiront-ils indemnes ? De cette affaire tristement banale, Eleanor Catton tire un formidable roman d'apprentissage - juste, bouleversant et, surtout, extrêmement orignal.

A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Luminaries.

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. THE LUMINARIES is an extraordinary piece of fiction, which more than fulfils the promise of THE REHEARSAL. Like that novel, it is full of narrative, linguistic and psychological pleasures, and has a fiendishly clever and original structuring device. Written in pitch-perfect historical register, richly evoking a mid-19th century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust, it is also a ghost story, and a gripping mystery. It is a thrilling achievement for someone still in her mid-twenties, and will confirm for critics and readers that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament.

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