Set in a small town in Switzerland, The Pledge centers around the
murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim’s
mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man has
been arrested for the crime, the detective lays a trap for the real
killer—with all the patience of a master fisherman. But cruel turns
of plot conspire to make him pay dearly for his pledge. Here Friedrich
Dürrenmatt conveys his brilliant ear for dialogue and a devastating
sense of timing and suspense. Joel Agee’s skilled translation
effectively captures the various voices in the original, as well as
its chilling conclusion. One of Dürrenmatt’s most diabolically
imagined and constructed novels, The Pledge was adapted for the screen
in 2000 in a film directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.
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ISBN
9780226530680
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Chicago Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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