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Mountains of the moon

After a ten-year stint in a London prison, Louise Alder has a new name, a cold room, and a past full of secrets. Her story takes us back to a shattered childhood world, a runaway's odyssey of love and madness, and ultimately to a legendary mountain range in central Africa. In Mountains of the Moon, I.J. Kay has crafted a haunting, hallucinatory, and suspenseful tale of the ultimate triumph of language and imagination, of witnessing and forgiveness. This richly imagined debut novel has garnered comparisons to the swift pacing of mystery master Stieg Larsson and the dazzling literary styles of Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner.

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  • "After a ten-year stint in a London prison, Louise Alder has a new name, a cold room, and a past full of secrets. Her story takes us back to a shattered childhood world, a runaway's odyssey of love and madness, and ultimately to a legendary mountain range in central Africa. In Mountains of the Moon, I.J. Kay has crafted a haunting, hallucinatory, and suspenseful tale of the ultimate triumph of language and imagination, of witnessing and forgiveness. This richly imagined debut novel has garnered comparisons to the swift pacing of mystery master Stieg Larsson and the dazzling literary styles of Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner."@en
  • "Struggling through dead-end jobs after a ten-year stint in prison, Londoner Lulu Adler recalls her violent childhood, battles with mental illness, and entry into the criminal world before receiving an unexpected settlement that enables her healing relocation to central Africa."
  • "A woman in her thirties is released from prison, with a new name and not much else. She begins to make a fresh start but the present is soon invaded by fragments from her past. Unsettling, hallucinatory and without precedent, this book is the tragic account of a broken life, but, against all expectation, it amounts to something utterly beautiful."@en
  • "Mehr als einen neuen Namen besitzt Louise Adler, genannt Lulu, nicht, als sie nach zehn Jahren endlich in die Freiheit entlassen wird. Mit Gelegenheitsjobs hält sie sich über Wasser, doch brechen sich die Erinnerungen an Kindheit und Jugend immer wieder Bahn: an die egozentrische Mutter und den gewalttätigen Vater, an die erste Liebe und Zusammenbrüche. Als Lulu Wiedergutmachung für die abgesessene Zeit im Gefängnis erhält, reist sie an den Sehnsuchtsort ihrer Kindheit, die Mondberge in Zentralafrika. In dieser großartigen Landschaft versucht sie, die Teile ihrer zerrütteten Seele wieder zusammenzusetzen. I. J. Kay ist ein besonderer Roman gelungen, der sprachlich an William Faulkner, in der Kompromisslosigkeit seiner Frauenfigur an Stieg Larsson und in seiner Unbarmherzigkeit an Sarah Kane erinnert und doch etwas ganz Besonderes ist: ein großartiger Text über ein Leben jenseits der gesellschaftlichen Ordnung. (Quelle: www.buchhandel.de)."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Ausgabe"

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  • "Nördlich der Mondberge Roman"
  • "Mountains of the Moon"
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