Melmoth

Resumen del libro

'Hugely readable and profoundly important ... Perry's masterly piece of postmodern gothic is one of the great achievements of our century' The ObserverSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEOBSERVER FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018'Beautiful, devastating, brilliant' Marian Keyes 'Astonishingly dark ... exquisitely balanced' Francis Spufford 'Packs a punch of atmosphere, creepiness, fear and melancholy' Susan Hill 'Mythic, ominous and sensitively human' Frances Hardinge 'Richly atmospheric, daring and surprising' Melissa Harrison 'Striking and brave, ...

moving and terribly beautiful' Sam GuglaniOh my friend, won't you take my hand - I've been so lonely! One winter night in Prague, Helen Franklin meets her friend Karel on the street. Agitated and enthralled, he tells her he has come into possession of a mysterious old manuscript, filled with personal testimonies that take them from 17th-century England to wartime Czechoslovakia, the tropical streets of Manila, and 1920s Turkey. All of them tell of being followed by a tall, silent woman in black, bearing an unforgettable message.

Helen reads its contents with intrigue, but everything in her life is about to change.

Biografía del autor

Sarah Perry (Essex, 1979) es doctora en Escritura Creativa por la Royal Holloway de la Universidad de Londres, y ha sido escritora residente de la Gladstonex{0026} x02019;s Library y de la Ciudad de la Literatura en Praga. Su primera novela, x{0026}lt;em After me comes the flood x{0026}lt;/em (2014), recibió numerosos premios, pero ha sido x{0026}lt;em La serpiente de Essexx{0026}lt;/em , ganadora del British Book Award 2016 y que se traducirá a más de quince idiomas, la que la ha situado como una de las jóvenes autoras británicas más destacadas de la actualidad.