ذاع صيت بولي وآني وإليزابيث وكاثرين وماري جين لسبب فرد مشترك، على الرغم من أنهن لم يلتقين قط. جئن من أمــاكن مختلفــة: شــــارع فلــيت، نايتسبريـــدج، ولفرهامبتون، السويـــــد، ويلز. كنّ يكتبن الروايات، ويديرنَ المقاهي، ويعشن في منشآت ريفية، يعملن في المطـــابع وسط غبـــار الحبر، ويهربن من تجّار الرقيق الأبيض. إلا أن القاسم المشترك بينهن جميعًا كان العام 1888، العام الذي قُتلن فيه. حتى اليوم، لم يُحاجزّد قاتلهن، حيث طغت شعبية “السفاح” الذي صنعته الكتابة الصحفية لملء فراغ الحقيقة على هويات هؤلاء السيدات الخمس.
لأكثر من قرن، واصلّت الصحف تروج لفكرة أن “السفاح” كان يستهدف البغايا، وهو قضى لم يكن فحسب غير صحيح -مثلما صرحت المؤرخة هالي روبنهولد- إلا أن طمس أيضًا الروايات الحقيقية المعبأة بالتفاصيل المُجدية لهؤلاء السيدات.
في ذلك السرد العميق والمرهق لخمس حيوات، تعيد روبنهولد الموضوعات إلى نصابها السليم، كاشفة عن عالم مغاير لعالم ديكنز أو الملكة فيكتوريا؛ عالم معبأ بالفقر والتشرد وبغض وكره السيدات المستشرية. لقد مُتن لأنهن وُجدن في المقر والزمان الخطأ، بل المأساة الأعمق كانت أنهن ولدن سيدات في مجتمع لم يمنحهن إحتمالية للحياة.
“Sparkling with mystery, humor and the uncanny, this is a fun read. But beneath its effervescent tone, more complex themes are at play.” —San Francisco Chronicle
In his wildly entertaining debut novel, Hank Green—cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow—spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined.
The Carls just appeared.
Roaming through New York City at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship—like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor—April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world—from Beijing to Buenos Aires—and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight.
Seizing the opportunity to make her mark on the world, April now has to deal with the consequences her new particular brand of fame has on her relationships, her safety, and her own identity. And all eyes are on April to figure out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us.
Compulsively entertaining and powerfully relevant, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing grapples with big themes, including how the social internet is changing fame, rhetoric, and radicalization; how our culture deals with fear and uncertainty; and how vilification and adoration spring for the same dehumanization that follows a life in the public eye. The beginning of an exciting fiction career, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is a bold and insightful novel of now.
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