Toxic Distortions

ISBN-13: 9781456336684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 246 str.

Teddy Goldstein

Opis

WINNER OF THE 2012 USA BEST BOOK AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION IN THE E-BOOK CATEGORY BRONZE MEDAL WINNER IN THE 2013 GLOBAL E-BOOK AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION "A stylishly written and cunningly plotted Holocaust revenge thriller. Set in the 1960s, its disturbing narrative of retribution moves to a tense and shattering conclusion. Combines the time-frame of a Tarantino movie with the pace and detail of an early Freddie Forsyth novel." ROGER KATZ "Disturbing and intriguing. Packed with plot twists and incident. A rite of passage novel which is also a revenge thriller. A literary novel which is also a page-turner. A Holocaust novel with a completely new perspective. I challenge you to put it down." "There can be no doubt that you have achieved a work which could easily be a best-seller..." CAL McCRYSTAL ..".evoked many dark memories of my earliest days," MARCEL LADENHEIM, the survivor whose story was the catalyst for this book. The novel takes the reader breathlessly from extraordinary revelation to nail-biting resolution: Dr Michael Turner is drawn inexorably into his past, to the nursing home where his aunt now lies so ill, so fragile, so angry. He must bring about the destruction of the SS doctors who so callously tortured her. But, can he do this without compromising his own Hippocratic Oath? Fuller description. 1965. London. Michael receives a lawyer's letter. Misty photographs - a 3-year old boy with long blond hair; a teenage girl full of sensuality, full of hope; a woman in her 20s, faded dress, slim frame, hollow cheeks, haunted eyes. Michael is drawn inexorably into his past. To the stench of potato-sacks, the perfume of almonds and cinnamon, the kiss of a fairy princess, the barking of dogs, the screech of trains, a woman tearing at his shirt, her wail of loss. Paris. Delphine looks at her lost child and finally understands her courageous act of madness. Frankfurt. Franz watches televison. Thick smoke rising from a brick chimney. No, not Auschwitz. A cremation. His cremation. Geneva. Vittorio entwines two silken puppets in a splaying of legs, a lifting of buttocks and weeps for his unfaithful wife. Bournemouth. Willy and Reuben compete. They are taking turns to heave a huge Menorah from their shoulder. A fight to the death. Hampstead. A journal spews thick torpid pitch as it hisses in the flames. The hissing turns to popping. The popping to crackling. The crackling to wailing. Ghosts are set free. WARNING: This novel contains sexually explicit material

Zawartość książki może nie spełniać oczekiwań – reklamacje nie obejmują treści, która mogła nie być redakcyjnie ani merytorycznie opracowana.