Sinopse:
"Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in her face, and then never speaks another word.
Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations - a search for the truth that threatens to consume him...
The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband - and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive."
Género: Thriller, Mistério, Suspense e Crime.
Ano de Publicação: 2019.
Páginas: 325.
Editora: Celadon Books.
Avaliação no Goodreads: 4.17.
The Silent Patient de Alex Michaelides | Livros |
Opinião:
Once you name something, it stops you seeing the whole of it, or why it matters. You focus on the word, which is just the tiniest part, really, the tip of an iceberg. I've never been that comfortable with words - and I always think in pictures, express myself with images - so I'd never have started writing this if it weren't for Gabriel.
It was the only explanation that made any sense. Why else tie up the man you loved to a chair and shoot him in the face at close range? And then express no remorse, give no explanation, not even speak? She must be mad. She had to be.
Her enduring silence turned this story from a commonplace domestic tragedy into something far grander: a mystery, an enigma that gripped the headlines and captured the public imagination for months to come.
This may seem hard to grasp, but those tears were not hers. They were mine.
Fortunately for you, that is the difference between our countries. Every Greek knows his tragedies. The tragedies are our myths, our history - our blood.
Conheço, mas ainda não li.
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