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Saint X Copertina flessibile – 26 maggio 2022

Edizione Inglese di Alexis Schaitkin (Autore)
3,8 3,8 su 5 stelle 2.723 voti
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'I read Saint X in a night, captivated by its mystery but also by the smart, evocative way Schaitkin writes about race, loss and place.’ – Maggie Shipstead, The Guardian, ‘The 30 best holiday reads’

‘Hypnotic, delivering acute social commentary on everything from class and race to familial bonds and community . . . I devoured Saint X in a day.’ – Oyinkan Braithwaite (author of My Sister, the Serial Killer), New York Times

Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last night of her family’s vacation. Several days later Alison’s body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men, employees at the resort, are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. It’s national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved, but for Claire’s family, there is only the sad return home to broken lives.

Years later, riding in a New York City taxi, Claire recognizes the name on the cab driver’s licence: Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. The fateful encounter sets her on an obsessive pursuit of the truth as to not only what happened on the night of Alison’s death, but the no-less-elusive question of exactly who was this sister she was barely old enough to know: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will uncover the truth, an unlikely intimacy develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by a tragedy.

Alexis Schaitkin’s Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that hurtles to a devastating end.

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  1. Lunghezza stampa
    352 pagine
  2. Lingua
    Inglese
  3. Editore
    Picador
  4. Data di pubblicazione
    26 maggio 2022
  5. Età di lettura
    Da 18 anni in su
  6. Dimensioni
    13 x 2.2 x 19.7 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    1529074851
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1529074857
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  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Picador (26 maggio 2022)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 352 pagine
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1529074851
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529074857
  • Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 250 g
  • Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 13 x 2.2 x 19.7 cm
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jikes
4,0 su 5 stelle The mystery of a dead school girl and the lives changed by it
Recensito in Canada il 5 maggio 2023
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When a teenage white girl goes missing on a tropical island, the immediate suspects are the black resort employees. Years later, the girl’s sister tries to understand what happened to her beloved older sister. Many lives are changed by one foolish act. A page Turner that delivers an ending you won’t expect
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Darius Tarbiat
5,0 su 5 stelle Great book!
Recensito in Germania il 22 dicembre 2023
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Great book! Kept me interested, and had very vivid, personable mini stories
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Nadia in Northumberland
4,0 su 5 stelle A thoughtful and intelligent physchological thriller
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 22 settembre 2023
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A college-age girl vanishes from the luxury resort of a Caribbean island (the fictional Saint X) on the last night of her family’s vacation and is found dead some days later, but despite what seems to be a thorough investigation it cannot be established whether it was foul play that led to her death or an accident. The story traces her short life to her death and the aftermath mostly through her eyes of her much younger sister who as a grown up tries to understand her sister through her diaries and people that knew her in the hope that she can piece together what might have happened. A chance encounter with one of the local suspect years later in New York triggers a series of events that eventually bring her closer to the truth she is after.
The story is also told through the different people that were involved in those events and their lives and I thought that its strength lies in that it succeeds to be an intelligent commentary about class and race without being patronising or offering neat solutions. A disclaimer here as I cannot judge how truthful the depiction of all the different characters feels to different readers but to me it did not feel forced and pretentious. For those who are after a more whodunit type of book, this is not it and it might feel long and overdrawn but to me it was obvious from the very start that the focus is on defining moments in people's lives and underlying random connections rather than uncovering a culprit.
Oh .... no need to compare to "White Lotus", and not only because one is a book and the other is a tv series .... Saint X really goes beyond the satire of white privileged Americans, which admittedly White Lotus did superbly, and it will be a pity to either pass or compare it on that level only and just because the events that kick off the story take place in a resort. By the way, Saint X has already been adapted for a tv series ... I watched half of the first episode AFTER I finished reading the book and "switched off". I wholeheartedly recommend to read the book and then you decide whether you want to watch the series ... Somehow I feel that the decision to adapt for the screen, and the way it was done, has not been successful, and it will certainly not make you want to seek the book ....
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Smita Ghaisas
2,0 su 5 stelle Disappointed
Recensito in India il 27 maggio 2021
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Not very convincing. Long drawn.
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Bob Sproule
4,0 su 5 stelle An Intriguing and Almost Existential Thriller
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 11 aprile 2020
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Alison Thomas is the gorgeous, somewhat snotty, and affluent 18 year old daughter of a Westchester, NY family on a Christmas vacation on the Caribbean island of Saint X (a fictional place for the purposes of this recently released novel). On the last night of the trip, Alison goes missing, and a few days later, her dead body is recovered. Two Saint X natives who worked for the high end resort where the Thomases stayed are held and then released for lack of evidence.

How does such an event affect the lives of those upon whom it touches? That is the story of this novel.

The story quickly flashes forward eighteen years, when Claire Thomas, the younger sister who was seven years old when Alison was killed, is now 25, lives and works in New York, and goes by her middle name, Emily, hops into a NYC cab and sees that her driver is Clive, one of the then young men who was arrested for and then released after the death of Alison. Thus begins the crux of the story as Emily tracks down and develops a relationship of sorts with Clive in an effort to find out THE TRUTH behind her older sister's death. She also needs to learn just exactly who her sister Alison was, and why her death has shaped who she, Emily, has become.

The story is then told through both Emily's and, to a lesser extent, Clive's point of view, and author Alexis Schaitkin also offers snippets of points of view from some of the people who are a part of this story....the Saint X police chief, a news reporter, other vacationers at the resort at the time of the death, and a host of others. It's as really clever device, I thought. I also thought that the opening chapters, where Schaitkin describes the island and the people who inhabit it, both natives and vacationers, and what lies just below the shiny veneers of these tropical paradises, we're brilliant. It was what hooked me from the get-go on this book.

The story also touches upon other topics - white privilege and tabloid journalism, among others - but the most intriguing is the existential question of timing of little events in a person's life when a seemingly minor decision can effect the entire course not only of that person's life, but the lives of countless others with whom they come in contact. It was those little moments that caused this book to stay with me after I finished it.

There were parts of the story that dragged on a bit too long for me, and might have been a bit superfluous, but I still liked the book and would recommend "Saint X" to anyone.
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