Those Who Knew

From the award winning author of Ways to Disappear, a taut, timely novel about what a powerful politician thinks he can get away with and the group of misfits who finally bring him down.On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a U.S supported regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days is taking advantage of a young woman who s been introducing him at rallies When the young woman ends up dead, Lena revisits her own fraught history with the senator and the violent incident that ended their relationship.Why didn t Lena speak up then, and will her family s support of the former regime still impact her credibility What if her hunch about this young woman s death is wrong What follows is a riveting exploration of the cost of staying silent and the mixed rewards of speaking up in a profoundly divided country Those Who Knew confirms Novey s place as an essential new voice in American fiction. Download Those Who Knew – kino-fada.fr Those Who Knew is one of the most timely, on point works of fiction for this era.With the opening pages of Idra Novey s sopho novel, Those Who Knew, you will be hooked into the story of politics, intrigue, masculine abuse, secrets and lies.On an unnamed island, exactly one week after the death of a young woman is ruled accidental, Lena discovers in her purse a shirt that she is convinced belonged to the young woman, Maria Her friend, bookshop weed store owner, Olga tries to convince Lena Those Who Knew is one of the most timely, on point works of fiction for this era.With the opening pages...While I appreciated this novel s ambition and stylistic difficulty the non linear telling, the slipping identities, the political plot, the elision of place names and the setting in an unnamed Latin American ish island nation I can t say I actually liked the book I actually don t understand what it was about, which is to say it was about many things but I have trouble integrating the ideas So I m surprised at the novel s recent publicity that seems to center on the bad man storyline While I appreciated this novel s ambition and stylistic difficulty the non linear telling, the slipping identities, the political plot, the elision of place names and the setting in an unnamed Latin American ish island nation I can t say I actually liked the book I actually don t under...This is one of the most exhilarating novels I ve read in ages It s an astonishingly perfect mosaic intricate, gorgeous on the topic of corruption, which feels both timely and timeless It forms the most complete picture I ve ever read of this subject, providing the reader with direct access into the minds of would be revolutionaries, washed up revolutionaries, those with good intentions and those without, those who ve lost their way, sexy egomaniacs, blundering outsiders and manyIt s a q This is one of the most exhilarating novels I ve read in ages It s an astonishingly perfect mosaic intricate, gorgeous on the topic of corruption, which feels both timely and timeless It forms the most complete picture I ve ever read of this subject, providing the reader with direct access into the minds of would be revolutionaries, washed up revolutionaries, those with good intentions and those without, those who ve lost their way, sexy egomaniacs, blundering outsiders and manyIt s a quick read that reverberates long after you put it down It is BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN, with the deftness of a playwright, the sensitivity of a translator, the fine touch of a poet and the skill of a born storyteller At the sight of Lena emerging from the bookstore, Oscar nearly dropped his biscuits The day was not quite as stingy with its light today A few sunbeams punctured the thinning clouds, which he hoped was the reason Lena was squinting so intently and not because she was debating whether...2.5, rounded up.For much of Novey s sopho novel, I was intrigued and reading quickly to find out how all the myriad and provocative plot threads would resolve themselves, interweave and form a cohesive whole Unfortunately, the novel just ENDS with no resolution and without anything making much sense Things which SEEMED to be important in the beginning the sweater, the death of Maria P just fade away, as do most of the subsequent happening...Such a brilliant book of our now Politics plus figurative and literal political ghosts connect or ensnaring the lives of an expertly rendered cast of characters The result is as enraging as it is inspiring Between this novel and WAYS TO DISAPPEAR, Idra is now one of my favorite contemporary writers.Idra Novey can write Her prose is beautiful and she plays with stylistic elements to create a wholly unique reading experience Unfortunately, I closed the cover on this nuanced work feeling somewhat confused I got itI think, but there was a lot...I consider myself very, very lucky that I got to read an early copy of this highly anticipated book I loved Ways to Disappear Novey s second novel enchanted in a different way it made me ponder what we let people get away with and why Political and poetic.Let me begin with my ending Idra Novey s Those Who Knew is beautiful, classically shaped, compulsively readable, an all too relevant exploration of the moral and ethical conundrums of our troubled times, as lavishly wrought as poetry, rendered in sensational, moving prose, a page turner work of art, layered, like prescient pentimento Get your hands on a copy of Those Who Knew as soon as you can, move it to the top of your TBR pile, and glory in it And be warned, you ll find yourself re readin Let me begin with my ending Idra Novey s Those Who Knew is beautiful, classically shaped, compulsively readable, an all too relevant exploration of the moral and ethical conundrums of our troubled times, as lavishly wrought as poetry, rendered in sensational, moving prose, a page turner work of art, layered, like prescient pentimento Get your hands on a copy of Those Who Knew as soon as you can, move it to the top of your TBR pile, and glory in it And be warned, you ll find yourself re reading and underlining and discovering new colors and richnesses every time.I don t want to bury the lede in a gushing paean about th...5 out of 5.So very much my kind of novel I loved what Novey did with the structure, dropping in scenes from plays and clippings from newspapers, and I loved the content of the novel itself a propulsive look at toxic masculinity in politics, at American intervention in Latin America, at the scars we leave behind us that we might not even be conscious of And the writing, my god It s playful even as it is serious, and the book practically dances along perhaps due to the short chapter length 5 out of 5.So very much my kind of novel I loved what Novey did with the structure, dropping in scenes from plays and clippings from newspapers, and I loved the content of the novel itself a propulsive look at toxic masculinity in politics, at American intervention in Latin America, at the scars we leave behind us that we might not even be conscious of And the writing, my god It s playful even as it is serious, and the book practically dances along perhaps due to the short chapter le...Those Who Knew is a meditation on the passive role people play in physical abuse and the abuse of power Lena is the main character, and as a college student had a temporary affair with Victor, which ended when Victor nearly killed her Lena remained silent and told no one Victor moves on to become a Senator, and other mysterious deaths of women close to Victor s political life ...

• English
• 18 May 2018
Idra Novey
• Hardcover
• 248 pages
• 0525560432
• Idra Novey
• Those Who Knew