dimanche 7 mars 2010

Dimiter de William Peter Blatty

Dimiter de William Peter Blatty

Annoncé comme un thriller théologique, Dimiter annonce surtout le grand retour de William Peter Blatty, auteur en 1971 de l'Exorciste, qui a été porté à l'écran deux ans plus tard par William Friedkin. Il sera disponible aux USA dès le 16 mars prochain, aux éditions Forge.

En attendant une éventuelle traduction du livre en France, voici le résumé du livre :

William Peter Blatty has thrilled generations of readers with his iconic mega-bestseller The Exorcist. Now Blatty gives us Dimiter, a riveting story of murder, revenge, and suspense. Laced with themes of faith and love, sin and forgiveness, vengeance and compassion, it is a novel in the grand tradition of Morris West's The Devil's Advocate and the Catholic novels of Graham Greene.

Dimiter opens in the world's most oppressive and isolated totalitarian state: Albania in the 1970s. A prisoner suspected of being an enemy agent is held by state security. An unsettling presence, though subjected to unimaginable torture he maintains an eerie silence. He escapes---and on the way to freedom, completes a mysterious mission. The prisoner is Dimiter, the American 'agent from Hell.'

The scene shifts to Jerusalem, focusing on Hadassah Hospital and a cast of engaging, colorful characters: the brooding Christian Arab police detective, Peter Meral; Dr. Moses Mayo, a troubled but humorous neurologist; Samia, an attractive, sharp-tongued nurse; and assorted American and Israeli functionaries and hospital staff. All become enmeshed in a series of baffling, inexplicable deaths, until events explode in a surprising climax.

Told with unrelenting pace, Dimiter's compelling, page-turning narrative is haunted by the search for faith and the truths of the human condition. Dimiter is William Peter Blatty's first full novel since the 1983 publication of Legion.
Source : www.fantasticfiction.co.uk

Frédéric Fontès

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