Visitation Street - Hardcover

Pochoda, Ivy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8416420173 ISBN 13: 9788416420179

Publisher: Malpaso Editorial, 2020

Synopsis

Barcelona. 21 cm. 316 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial ilustrada. Pochoda, Ivy 1977-. Traducción de Ramón de España. Título del original en inglés: Visitation street. España, Ramón de. 1956-. traductor .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 9788416420179

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One scorching summer night, two teenage girls decide to take a trip on a homemade raft. They disappear in the bay, and only one of them is later found, unconscious. Jonathan, the girls' teacher, is determined to uncover the girl's deepest sins and secrets.

Review

Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda's voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it's indelibly her own. (Dennis Lehane)

A powerfully beautiful novel (New York Times Book Review)

VISITATION STREET explores a community's response to tragedy with crystalline prose, a dose of the uncanny, and an unblinking eye for both human frailty and resilience. Pochoda's vivid portrait of grief, hope, and redemption lends power to the small moments of grace and beauty that may be found in the wake of loss. Marvellous. (Deborah Harkness, author of A Discovery of Witches)

Skilful... nuanced... Ms. Pochoda aspires to join female suspense novelists - among them, Tana French, Laura Lippman and Kate Atkinson - who are arguably writing more serious genre fiction than their male counterparts. (ALEXANDER NAZARYAN New York Times)

VISITATION STREET immersed me completely in the neighbourhood of Red Hook, and brought its inhabitants to life in a beautiful, haunting, and thought-provoking crime novel. Ivy Pochoda brings forth the full palette of human emotions in this gripping urban drama, a story that hurts you on one page and gives you hope on the next. A marvellous novel. (Michael Koryta, author of So Cold the River)

Intoxicating. . . . Reading VISITATION STREET, imbued as it is with mystery and danger, I am utterly convinced that Pochoda is herself a medium, capable of communicating across boundaries real and imagined, across noisy courtyards and over rough waves. She is simply too good at hearing voices--and sharing them--for that not to be the case. (Emma Straub)

Worth seeking out... a writer to watch (Shortlist)

A terrific story in the vein of Dennis Lehane's fiction. (Kirkus)

The dealings with the tragedy within the first few chapters, reminded me so much of Twin Peaks . . . with Pochoda's clever prose, it soon becomes evident that between each of the characters there lays a gulf of isolation . . . Pochoda's prose and storytelling skill has managed with a clear and beautiful tact, to turn the town of Red Hook into the most fascinating character within the book. This makes the story both enchanting and tangible. (Huffington Post)

Pochoda's use of third person multiple point of view serves to paint a unique portrait of a community drawn together and pulled apart by grief, while at the same time creating a fully realized emotional arc for each primary character. In another turn from the traditions of the mystery genre, the novel's thick description and lush prose invite readers to steep in the heady elixir of the dockside neighborhood. (The Rumpus)

About this edition

• Publisher: Malpaso Editorial
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 8416420173
• ISBN 13: 9788416420179
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: Spanish
• Number of pages: 320