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A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.

For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours, this searing, fast-paced novel explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion, and the line between love and hate. It is a challenging, moving, gripping story, written with the fluidity and strength of voice that only Alice Sebold can bring to the page.

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Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Alice Sebold's compelling memoir of her rape at the age of eighteen is a story that takes hold of you and won't let go.

Sebold fulfills a promise that she made to herself in the very tunnel where she was raped: someday she would write a book about her experience. With Lucky she delivers on that promise with mordant wit and an eye for life's absurdities, as she describes what she was like both as a young girl before the rape and how that rape changed but did not sink the woman she later became.

It is Alice's indomitable spirit that we come to know in these pages. The same young woman who sets her sights on becoming an Ethel Merman-style diva one day (despite her braces, bad complexion, and extra weight) encounters what is still thought of today as the crime from which no woman can ever really recover. In an account that is at once heartrending and hilarious, we see Alice's spirit prevail as she struggles to have a normal college experience in the aftermath of this harrowing, life-changing event.

No less gripping is the almost unbelievable role that coincidence plays in the unfolding of Sebold's narrative. Her case, placed in the inactive file, is miraculously opened again six months later when she sees her rapist on the street. This begins the long road to what dominates these pages: the struggle for triumph and understanding – in the courtroom and outside in the world.

Lucky is, quite simply, a real-life thriller. In its literary style and narrative tension we never lose sight of why this life story is worth reading. At the end we are left standing in the wake of devastating violence, and, like the writer, we have come to know what it means to survive.

The Bram Stoker Awards

My name was Salmon, like the fish, first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer'

This is Susie Salmon, speaking to us from heaven. It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets. There are counsellors to help newcomers to adjust, and friends to room with. Everything she wants appears as soon as she thinks of it – except the thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved on earth.

From heaven, Susie watches. She sees her happy suburban family implode after her death, as each member tries to come to terms with the terrible loss. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet.

The Lovely Bones is a luminous and astonishing novel about life and death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting. It is, above all, a novel which finds light in the darkest of places, and shows how even when that light seems to be utterly extinguished, it is still there, waiting to be rekindled.

A Susie Salmon (sí, igual que el pez) la mataron. Fue violada, asesinada y luego descuartizada en un campo de trigo cuando volvía del colegio una helada tarde de invierno.

A sus 14 años, era una joven como tantas, que soñaba con ir a la universidad, conocer chicos, vestirse a la moda y ser actriz o fotógrafa. Pero ahora ya no está para contarnos sus planes, sus ansias de futuro… o tal vez sí.

Desde la atalaya de su cielo, en el que ahora habita eternamente, Susie observa la vida en la Tierra de aquellos a quienes dejó.

Desde ese cielo donde ahora puede concretar todos sus sueños de adolescente, Susie también relata de forma minuciosa la brutal preparación y ejecución de su asesinato, cometido por un conocido, un vecino del lugar, y descubrir que no es la única chica que ha hecho `desaparecer` dicho individuo.

Una narración fría y distante de un acto perverso, en las que Susie intercala sus ingenuas y curiosas experiencias en su cielo. La realidad más atroz y perturbadora, junto con la fantasía de un mundo donde el muerto puede al fin realizar todos sus deseos. Excepto uno: volver a la Tierra junto a los suyos.

A Susie sólo le queda dedicarse a observar, cuidar e intentar de alguna forma, intervenir en la vida de aquellos a quienes dejó atrás: su obstinado padre, que no descansará hasta saber lo que realmente le ocurrió, su madre, que termina aislada de todo y de todos, sus hermanos, que lucharán por sobrevivir al vacío dejado por ella y reconstruir sus vidas, sus amigos, inmersos en la lucha diaria por seguir sin su presencia, e incluso en el chico que estaba enamorado de ella y que no logra olvidarla. Desde su cielo, Susie debe aprender también a resignarse, dejar vivir a los vivos y continuar su derrotero.

Queramos verlo o no, el Mal forma parte de nuestra vida cotidiana, y esta novela desgarradora