The Secret History by Donna Tartt

La autora estadounidense debutó con este thriller psicológico sobre un grupo de jóvenes universitarios que se embarcan en un peligroso juego sobre los límites de la moral. Una novela absorbente que combina entretenimiento y reflexión filosófica.

by RACHEL ROBERTS

Born in 1963 in Greenwood, Mississippi in the US, Donna Tartt was an avid reader and writer from an early age. She went to the University of Mississippi, but in 1982, transferred to Bennington College, Vermont, where she studied classics. Tartt’s time at Bennington provided the backdrop1 to The Secret History. Four clever2 and eccentric college students studying classics at an elite college kill the fifth member of their class, Bunny. DEFYING GENRE This is not a spoiler: the narrator, Richard Papen, says as much in the opening lines of the prologue. But then, this book is not a classic crime story. More of a ‘whydunnit3’ than a whodunnit4, the first half of the novel deals with the painful circumstances that lead up to Bunny’s murder and the second half…

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