The stories-within-stories and the Jewish themes recall Dara Horn's The World to Come and Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, although Melmoth presents different kinds of nightmares., 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?, Perry's masterly piece of postmodern gothic is one of the great achievements of the century and deserves all the prizes and praise that will be heaped upon it., An unforgettable achievement.Perry's heartbreaking, horrifying monster confronts the characters not just with the uncanny but also with the human: with humanity's complicity in history's darkest moments, its capacity for guilt, its power of witness, and its longing for both companionship and redemption., Masterful.scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. a sobering, disturbing, yet powerful and moving book that cannot fail to impress. stylized, postmodern work by a masterly writer. But, unaware, as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless, itinerant solitude. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts-or, at least, refuge. It has been years since Helen Franklin left England.
Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The Essex Serpent, but this is a deeper, more complex novel and more rewarding."-The Washington Post In Melmoth, Sarah Perry's breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, a mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe for centuries, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history's darkest waters-and now, it is heading in our direction.
From the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent-soon to be an Apple TV+ Series "Masterful.scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love.
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