Melmoth: A Novel - Couverture rigide

“Masterful...scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The Essex Serpent, but this is a deeper, more complex novel and more rewarding.” (Washington Post)

“Another Gothic stunner...a scary novel that chills to the bone even as it points the way to a warmer, more humane, place.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Ms. Perry, whose last book, The Essex Serpent, was a breakout hit, again proves herself a master of atmosphere.” (Wall Street Journal)

“The past few years have brought a glut of fashionably affectless and amoral fiction, to which Sarah Perry’s fierce, full-hearted books about love and ethics feel like the perfect antidote.” (NPR Book of the Year)

“A gothic masterwork.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“The last few years have brought a glut of fashionably affectless and amoral fiction....Sarah Perry’s fierce, full-hearted books about love and ethics feel like an antidote to that elegant apathy....In a world that feels desperate, chaotic, and unredeemable, Melmoth asks us to be witnesses for each other.” (NPR)

“Reels you in, using the same trick of all the best ghost stories, from The Turn of the Screw on: Is there really a ghost before you? Or do you see the projection of your own secret sins and desires? What is more frightening than the human?” (New York Times)

“A novel that manages that vanishingly rare feat – being at once hugely readable and profoundly important...Perry’s masterly piece of postmodern gothic is one of the great literary achievements of our young century.” (The Guardian)

“The author of The Essex Serpent casts another haunting spell in this exquisitely written gothic novel.” (People)

“Filled with thought-provoking ideas on historical guilt and personal responsibility, as well as a depth of learning...the message at its heart is an uplifting one; even if redemption for wrongdoing cannot always be achieved, there is power in bearing witness.” (Financial Times)