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The amnesiac
A gripping literary thriller from an exciting new voice in fiction Hailed as 'one to watch ' by the UK's Telegraph, Sam Taylor is one of the most imaginative and innovative young writers at work today. With The Amnesiac, his United States debut, he incorporates a murder mystery and a forgotten manuscript into an exhilarating and intelligent novel. When twenty-nine-year-old James Purdew returns to England from his home in Amsterdam, it is to discover what happened during three earlier years of his life that he cannot recall. What he finds, in an old house with a tragic history, is a nineteenth-century manuscript that begins to seem less and less like a work of fiction'and more like the key to his own lost past. Memory and amnesia, fiction and reality, destiny and randomness, heaven and hell'all converge to form an engrossing gothic story that is sure to appeal to fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind.
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- "A gripping literary thriller from an exciting new voice in fiction Hailed as 'one to watch ' by the UK's Telegraph, Sam Taylor is one of the most imaginative and innovative young writers at work today. With The Amnesiac, his United States debut, he incorporates a murder mystery and a forgotten manuscript into an exhilarating and intelligent novel. When twenty-nine-year-old James Purdew returns to England from his home in Amsterdam, it is to discover what happened during three earlier years of his life that he cannot recall. What he finds, in an old house with a tragic history, is a nineteenth-century manuscript that begins to seem less and less like a work of fiction'and more like the key to his own lost past. Memory and amnesia, fiction and reality, destiny and randomness, heaven and hell'all converge to form an engrossing gothic story that is sure to appeal to fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind."@en
- ""After breaking his leg on the stairs of his Amsterdam apartment, James Purdew finds himself stuck at home with too much time to think. James becomes obsessed with the three years of his own past that he cannot recall and returns to England. The old strangely familiar house where he comes to stay has some secrets of it's own ..."--Jacket."
- "James Purdew, Anglais de 29 ans, vit à Amsterdam lorsque Ingrid, sa compagne, le quitte. Sans travail, il se retrouve à la rue. Il est en outre sujet à des trous de mémoire, relatifs aux années qu'il a passées à l'université de H. Il entreprend alors de rédiger ses mémoires et retourne en Angleterre où il est engagé pour rénover une demeure de H., qui semble liée à ses souvenirs. Premier roman."
- "When we first meet James Purdew, he is living in Amsterdam with his Dutch girlfriend, but his superficial enjoyment of life masks a darker tale. Why can't he remember three years when he was a student at the northern English university town of H? What is in the sealed black box under his bed? The answers appear to lie in H, and James embarks on a nightmare journey into his past, gradually becoming obsessed with a 19th-century manuscript entitled 'Confessions of a Killer'."
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- "The amnesiac"
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- "L'amnésique : roman"
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