Vox
Silence can be deafening
‘Intelligent, suspenseful, provocative, and intensely disturbing – everything a great novel should be’ LEE CHILD‘Extraordinary’ LOUISE O’NEILL‘A truly compulsive novel.’ STYLIST‘The book of the moment!’ MARIE CLAIRE‘This book will blow your mind’ [...]
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Auteur : Christina DALCHER
Editeur : Harpercollins
Date parution : 03/2019CB Google/Apple Pay, Chèque, Virement
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‘Intelligent, suspenseful, provocative, and intensely disturbing – everything a great novel should be’ LEE CHILD
‘Extraordinary’ LOUISE O’NEILL
‘A truly compulsive novel.’ STYLIST
‘The book of the moment!’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘This book will blow your mind’ PRIMA
‘A petrifying reimagining of The Handmaid’s Tale’ ELLE
‘A fast-paced, twisting thriller that left me speechless.’ DAILY MAIL
‘Terrifying’ RED
‘A novel ripe for the #MeToo era’ VANITY FAIR
‘A dazzling debut.’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
‘Thought-provoking and thrilling. I was left speechless!’ WOMAN & HOME
Silence can be deafening.
Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins.
Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you’re a woman.
Almost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy million women lose their jobs. Even more terrifyingly, young girls are no longer taught to read or write.
For herself, her daughter, and for every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice. This is only the beginning…
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Auteurs :
Christina Dalcher earned her doctorate in theoretical linguistics from Georgetown University. She specialized in the phonetics of sound change in Italian and British dialects and taught at universities in the United States, England, and the United Arab Emirates.
Her short stories and flash fiction appear in over one hundred journals worldwide. Recognitions include first prize in the Bath Flash Fiction Award as well as nominations for The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions.
Laura Bradford of Bradford Literary Agency represents Dalcher’s novels.
After spending several years abroad, most recently in Sri Lanka, Dalcher and her husband now split their time between the American South and Andalucia, Spain.
Her debut novel, VOX, was published in August 2018 by Berkley (an imprint of Penguin Random House) and has been translated into twenty languages.
Dalcher’s second novel, MASTER CLASS, will be out in the spring of 2020.
