Highway Thirteen
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Hodder & Stoughton
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Ja
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Erscheinungsdatum
25.07.2024
Verlag
Hodder & StoughtonSeitenzahl
320 (Printausgabe)
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5891 KB
Sprache
Englisch
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9781529389890
'Stylish and lyrical in its prose and deeply sensitive in its characterisation'
GUARDIAN
'Clever and engrossing'
MAIL ON SUNDAY
'McFarlane's imaginative and tonal range is astonishing . . . a superb writer'
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Books of the Year
'A masterclass'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'McFarlane is a master at just about everything: dialogue, setting, comic timing'
LOS ANGELES TIMES
In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged for a series of brutal murders. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution to the victims' families, but its impact travels even further: into the past, as the murders rewrite personal histories, and into the future, as true crime podcasts and biopics tell the story of the crimes.
From the killer's childhood town to Texas, Rome and beyond, from the mid-twentieth century to the near-future, Highway Thirteen asks how do communities make sense of such atrocities? How does the mourning of families sit alongside the public fascination with terrible crimes? And can we tell true crime stories without centring the killers?
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What an impressive read!
Collections of short stories are not often an easy sell, but "Highway Thirteen", winner of The Story Prize in 2025 is very cohesive. No character appears in more than one story, but they are all centered around a string of murders. The murderer himself is mentioned frequently, but he never appears - which is a smart way to center the collection around the characters who suffer in one way or another from his choices without giving him a personality or even a redemption. One of the blurbs says that Fiona McFarlane enters her stories at just the right time, and that is true time and again. Sure, not all stories are equally exciting - I like the story about the murderer's neighbor or the one about a woman who is empathetic to a fault better than others, but McFarlane shows a wide range of characters, settings, situations, points of view and subgenres, and I am really looking forward to reading something else by her.
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