Tatiana de Rosnay. (2021). Flowers of Darkness: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Tatiana de Rosnay. 2021. Flowers of Darkness: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Tatiana de Rosnay, Flowers of Darkness: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2021.

Tatiana de Rosnay. Flowers of Darkness: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2021.

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From the internationally bestselling author of Sarah's Key comes Tatiana de Rosnay's Flowers of Darkness, a riveting and emotionally intense novel, set in a near future Paris, where a woman confronts past betrayal and present mystery
Author Clarissa Katsef is struggling to write her next book. She's just snagged a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment, with a view of all of Paris, a dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But since moving in, she has had the feeling of being watched. Is there reason to be paranoid? Or is her distraction and discomfort the result of her husband's recent shocking betrayal? Or is that her beloved Paris lies altered outside her windows? A city that will never be quite the same, a city with a scar at its center?
Stuck inside, in the midst of a sweltering heat wave, Clarissa enlists her beloved granddaughter in her investigation of the mysterious, high tech building even as she finds herself drawn back into the orbit of her first husband who is still the one who knows her most intimately, who shares the past grief that she has never quite let go.
Staying true to her favorite themes—the imprint of the place, the weight of secrets—de Rosnay weaves an intrigue of thrilling suspense and emotional power.

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   • source: Elle (France)
   • content: "All the alluring ingredients of de Rosnay's work come together in her new novel."
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   • content: "A fine novel, a thriller that sensitively explores paranoia, grief, and personal redemption. The writing is lush and visually evocative... she has such a compelling voice."
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   • source: Jean Hegland, author of Windfalls and Into the Forest
   • content: "I love how Tatiana de Rosnay's novels are always both page-turners and explorations of important issues...The questions the story raises about creativity, loss, and the rich messiness of being fully human are crucial and compelling. The near-future in which Flowers of Darkness takes place is such a logical extension of our own environmentally-challenged and AI-enhanced present that as I read I kept wanting to check to make sure the Eiffel tower was still standing."
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   • source: Madame Figaro
   • content: "Lively, engaging and captivating."
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   • content: "By exploring the effects of modern technology and the upheavals of contemporary life, de Rosnay continues to thrill us with this hypnotizing intrigue."
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     October 15, 2020
     In near-future Paris, novelist Clarissa Katsef takes up residence in a new artists' commune located in a high-tech building that comes with its own artificial-intelligence virtual assistants (Clarissa calls hers Mrs. Dalloway, after the Virginia Woolf character, whose first name was also Clarissa). Soon, Clarissa, who is still emotionally shaky after leaving her husband, begins to feel as though she is being watched, suggesting that this artists' residence is not quite the idyllic setting its promoters had promised. De Rosnay's latest (following The Rain Watcher, 2018) is a fine novel, a thriller that sensitively explores paranoia, grief, and personal redemption. The writing is lush and visually evocative, and the story has a distinctly Ira Levin feel to it (there are thematic similarities to Levin's 1991 novel Sliver), although at no point does de Rosnay seem imitative of Levin. She's too good a writer for that, not when she has such a compelling voice of her own.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)

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     December 21, 2020
     Writer Clarissa Katsef, the protagonist of this intriguing if slow-moving near-future thriller from bestseller de Rosnay (The Rain Watcher), has spent 20 years with her second husband—until she discovers he’s been cheating on her. Luckily, she’s found the perfect refuge: a technologically advanced apartment complex in Paris that’s run by a mysterious organization called C.A.S.A. and is dedicated to giving artists an inexpensive, supposedly art-conducive environment, complete with an AI (which Clarissa names Mrs. Dalloway). Instead of feeling inspired, Clarissa begins to feel watched, tired, and creeped out by a neighbor’s suspicious disappearance. She’s also haunted by dreams of her first, stillborn child. And when a 19-year-old writer and fan reaches out and wants to meet for coffee, even this appears to be part of C.A.S.A.’s hidden agenda. However, when Clarissa and her beloved 14-year-old granddaughter begin to investigate her uneasy feelings about the technology and the neighbor’s disappearance, they can’t find much. Nearly plotless, this sensitive examination of relationships and the nature of privacy will appeal mainly to readers of literary fiction. Suspense fans may feel shortchanged.

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