دانلود کتاب Beyond Black نوشته HILARY MANTEL

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هیلاری منتل – HILARY MANTEL

ناشر:

HarperCollins

سال نشر:

۲۰۰۵ 

تعداد صفحات:

۸۵۴

فرمت فایل:

EPUB

درباره کتاب Beyond Black نوشته HILARY MANTEL :

“Beyond Black” is a novel by Hilary Mantel that was first published in 2005. The novel is a darkly comedic exploration of the supernatural and the struggles of the human condition.

The story follows Alison Hart, a medium who communicates with the dead and is plagued by her own troubled past. Alison’s world is populated by a cast of eccentric characters, including Morris, her business partner and lover, and Colette, her hapless assistant.

As Alison and her team travel around the country performing psychic shows, they encounter a range of supernatural phenomena, from mischievous ghosts to malevolent spirits. But as Alison delves deeper into her own psyche and confronts her painful past, she begins to question her own sanity.

“Beyond Black” is known for its sharp wit and its unflinching portrayal of human suffering. Mantel uses the supernatural elements of the story to explore themes of trauma, grief, and the search for meaning in a chaotic world. The novel has been praised for its vivid characterizations and its ability to balance humor with moments of intense emotional depth.

Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab beanpole of an assistant, the other a charismatic, corpulent psychic whose connection to the spiritual world torments her. When they meet at a fair, Alison invites Colette at once to join her on the road as her personal assistant and companion. Troubles spiral out of control when the pair moves to a suburban wasteland in what was once the English countryside. It is not long before the place beyond black threatens to uproot their lives forever.
Overall, “Beyond Black” is a unique and compelling work of fiction that showcases Hilary Mantel’s talent for crafting complex and engaging narratives. It is a must-read for fans of dark comedy and explorations of the supernatural.
This is Hilary Mantel at her finest–insightful, darkly comic, unorthodox, and thrilling to read.

جملاتی از کتاب Beyond Black :

“At some point on your road you have to turn and start walking back towards yourself. Or the past will pursue you, and bite the nape of your neck, leave you bleeding in the ditch. Better to turn and face it with such weapons as you possess.”

“The world beyond the glass is the world of masculine action. Everything she sees is what a man has built. But at each turn-off, each junction, women are waiting to know their fate.”

“A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.”

“You start out, you start talking, you don’t even know what you’re going to say. You don’t even know your way to the end of the sentence. You don’t know anything. Then suddenly you do know you have to walk blind and you walk slap into the truth.”

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