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James Lee Burke er klar med en ny roman: Wayfaring Stranger. |
James Lee Burke har netop sat sidste punktum i sin nyeste
roman Wayfaring Stranger, der
udkommer på det amerikanske marked næste sommer. På dansk mangler vi endnu de
to foreløbigt sidste bind i sagaen om Dave Robicheaux, Creole Belle og Light of the
world.
Wayfaring Stranger er en selvstændig roman, selvom den har en
Holland i en af hovedrollerne –
Weldon Holland – en ny karakter i forfatterens romanunivers løsligt baseret på
JLB´s afdøde fætter.
Den foregår i årene 1934 – 1948 og kommer ifølge forfatteren
vidt omkring: fra Depressionen, Den Spanske Borgerkrig og 2. verdenskrig til det begyndende olieeventyr
ved Texas’ og Louisianas kyst.
Og så har det berømte forbryderpar
Bonnie og Clyde, også en rolle i fortællingen.
Her følger en mere
udførlig beskrivelse af romanen:
‘James Lee
Burke's new novel begins in West Texas in 1934, and the story begins with a
fateful encounter between the narrator, Weldon Avery Holland, and the notorious
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker - a meeting which ends with the sixteen-year-old
Holland putting a bullet through the windscreen of Clyde's stolen automobile.
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Bonnie og Clyde spiller også en rolle i James Lee Burkes nyeste roman |
Weldon's
education in the evils that men - and women - are capable of continues as we
move to the Ardennes Forest and the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, where Second
Lieutenant Weldon Holland saves his sergeant, Hershel Pine, from death by
suffocation when he is buried alive in his foxhole under the treads of a Waffen
SS Tiger tank. Weldon and Hershel survive the executions of the wounded by the
SS and escape on a freight train deep into Nazi Germany.
There, they
stumble into an extermination camp deserted by the SS, and discover among the
stacked bodies a young woman named Rosita Lowenstein - the second woman to
change Weldon's life. Weldon goes all the way to the Elbe River in the war's
brutal climax, but afterwards he is determined to find Rosita - eventually
tracking her down in Paris, where they get married.
But Hershel
has also found gold in the dross of conflict, claiming to have discovered the
secret to the Tiger tank's indestructibility, its unique welding process - and
on their return to the States, it looks as if the two friends have not merely
survived; they're going to be rich.
But as the
two form a pipeline corporation and enter the oil business, they are about to
encounter - amidst the super-rich of Houston - levels of greed and cruelty they
thought they had left far behind in the blood and horror of war.’
Hej Jens Henrik!
SvarSletModtog overstående på min Kindle den 14. juli. Det er den kendte JLB koncept, men jeg synes nu, at det er ved at være lidt for meget, men spændingen holder. Kun synes jeg der manglede en ordentlig afslutning på trods af den sædvanlige epilog.
Men det er for lang tid at vente på oversættelse til dansk. Nu er Hovedland 3 udgivelser bagud.
Fortsat god sommer.
Hej Palle. Mange tak for din kommentar. Jeg er helt enig med dig i, at det tager alt for lang tid før oversættelserne til dansk er klar. Men lyder godt med Wayfaring Stranger- den glæder jeg mig til.
SvarSletGod sommer til dig også.