Marcel Theroux Bücher

In einer radikal veränderten Welt durch den Klimawandel lebt Makepeace Hatfield einsam in Sibirien. Ihre Begegnung mit einem Fremden während einer Patrouille konfrontiert sie mit einer neuen Realität, in der die Natur die Oberhand gewonnen hat.

Als Damien March die Nachricht erhält, sein Onkel Patrick sei gestorben, ist er vor allem deshalb so schockiert, weil er geglaubt hatte, sein Onkel wäre schon lange tot. Noch verwunderter ist Damien, als sich herausstellt, daß Patrick ihm sein Haus auf der Insel Ionia vor der Küste von Cape Cod vererbt hat. Kurzentschlossen kündigt Damien seinen Job bei der BBC, verläßt London und zieht nach Ionia. Aber was der Aufbruch zu einem neuen Leben werden sollte, wird zur Suche nach der familiären Vergangenheit. In das Haus wird eingebrochen, und als Damien in den Papieren seines Onkels stöbert, stößt er auf das Fragment eines unveröffentlichten Romans, „Die Bekenntnisse des Mycroft Holmes“. Auf eine unheimliche Weise beginnt dieses Manuskript alles, was Damien über seinen Onkel, über dessen Leben uns ich selbst wußte, zu verändern. Denn Mycroft Holmes, der ältere Bruder von Sherlock, eine der irritierendsten Abwesenheiten in der Literatur, wird, so wie ihn das Manuskript entwirft, Patrick immer ähnlicher. Und die Geschichte über Mord und Betrug, die Damien liest, scheint auf einmal das Leben des Onkels auf Ionia in ein völlig neues Licht zu tauchen. Bis alles noch einmal eine überraschende Wende nimmt. Die entscheidende Frage, die dieser Roman auf spannende und unterhaltsame Weise stellt - und zuletzt beantwortet - ist in der Tat: „Wer war Patrick March?“

A major new novel of retribution and forgiveness from a prize-winning author.

Damien March, a young BBC executive, finds he has inherited his mysterious Uncle Patrick's house in Cape Cod. Having a spiky relationship with his brother and father, he's keen to estabish why his uncle shoud have felt so close to him. His visit to the house turns up an unfinished manuscript.

Growing up amid the starvation and oppression of 1990s North Korea, 10-year-old Cho Jun-su stumbles upon a mysterious game, left behind by a rare foreign visitor. As Jun-su painstakingly deciphers the rules of the game in secret, he unlocks an inner world that is at first an antidote and then a threat to the political cult that surrounds him.

Nicholas Slopen has been dead for months. So when a man claiming to be Nicholas turns up to visit an old girlfriend, deception seems the only possible motive.Yet nothing can make him change his story.From the secure unit of a notorious psychiatric hospital, he begins to tell his tale: an account of attempted forgery that draws the reader towards an extraordinary truth - a metaphysical conspiracy that lies on the other side of madness and death.Strange Bodies takes the reader on a dizzying speculative journey that poses questions about identity, authenticity, and what it means to be truly human.

A world on the brink of catastrophe. A two-thousand-year-old mystery. A lost gospel. A young man flees the drudgery of shopkeeping in Tsarist Russia to make a new life among the bohemians and revolutionaries of nineteenth-century Paris. Beginning a treacherous journey through a world of spies and double-cross, propaganda, lost love, and anti-Semitism, he enters a modern world where lies have the power of truth. Based on real events, The Secret Books is at once a page-turning adventure and an examination of the stories that humans are willing to kill and to die for.

Ah, the fish-out-of-water tale. In <i>A Stranger in the Earth</i>, debut novelist Marcel Theroux drops fresh-out-of-the-sticks Horace Littlefair into a rough-and-tumble London populated by all manner of dreamers, conspirators, and fakes. Once he's settled and gainfully employed, the eye-opening that Horace experiences constitutes the novel's comic arc. And his job at his uncle's newspaper, <i>The South London Bugle</i>, is a great narrative device, setting up a series of humorous encounters with monomaniacs (and just plain maniacs) of various stripes. There's Trevor Diamond, the animal-rights activist devoted to the preservation of the urban fox. There's Horace's Scrabble-obsessed landlord, Mr. Narayan, who wins his games using words like <i>rewoo</i>. In these and an abundance of other secondary characters, Theroux's craft shines. You can't sum up their relationships in single sentences without sounding like you're setting up a punch line: What do you get when you cross a politician with a lady of the evening? What does an animal-rights activist have to do with a gardening columnist? To Theroux's credit, the answer to both of these questions is: Quite a lot, actually.<p> What's lost in the shuffle of who-did-what-to-whom is Horace himself, who comes off more as a surrogate reader than a fully realized character. While those called up from central casting steal the show, he remains somewhat muted, more often a witness than a participant in the madness. His moments of self-reflection appropriately encounter this kind of sentiment: </p><blockquote> And for all his conscientious interest in the world, and the business of getting up and going to work each day, he was still aware of a hollowness inside him that he couldn't fill up with newsprint. </blockquote> One of Theroux's great talents lies in the rubbish coming out of his characters' mouths. If you never thought it possible for anyone other than Austin Powers to utter "chap," "bloke," and "bird" within the space of a single paragraph, look no further than <i>A Stranger in the Earth</i>, old boy. At times sounding like a <i>Pygmalion</i> by way of Monty Python with a detour into Lewis Carroll's wonderland, these characters can't seem to shut up, and their voices are music to readers' ears. <i>--Ryan Boudinot</i>