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Into the Water is the second work by Paula Hawkins (1972), the English author and author of the best-selling novel The Girl on the Train. This book also sold well. The story of the book is an exciting story that pays special attention to the psychological dimensions of the characters, but is written very differently from a girl on a train.
In this book, we will encounter at least eleven different narrators, some in the first person and some in the third person. The town of Beckford is on the outskirts of Newcastle, where a river is flowing.
The inhabitants of the city are unaware of this, and no one likes to think that they drink water every day, which is contaminated with the blood and juice of unfortunate women. The book begins with the drowning of Nell Abbott, whose teenage daughter believes his death was a suicide, but Nell’s sister returns to Beckford to look for clues to his death.
Excerpts from the book Underwater:
Those magnificent plants, those incredible green and yellow colors of the mountain cedars on the top of the hill, ignite in my mind and bring with them a wave of memories. When I was four or five years old, my father took me with him into the water. Screaming and stomping and enjoying and you, who jumped from the top of the boulders into the river, and each time you went higher and higher.
Picnics we spent on the sandy beach of the pond; The taste of sunscreen on my tongue, catching brown chubby fish in muddy water and relatively gentle downstream flowing from the mill. You came home with one of those wrong jumps in the water, with wounded and bloody feet, and when your father was cleaning your wounds, you put a tea towel on your teeth and pressed it; Because you did not cry.
Something woke me up. I got out of bed to go to the bathroom and noticed that the door to Mom and Dad’s room was open. When I looked, I saw that my mother was not in bed. Dad snorted as usual.
The clock on the radio showed 4:08. I told myself that it must be downstairs. He has trouble sleeping. Each pair now has this problem; But the pills that Baba takes are so strong that he does not wake up even if you stand by his bed and whisper in his ear. I went downstairs very quietly, because he usually turns on the TV when he is insomniac and watches nonsensical advertisements about devices that help you lose weight or clean the floor or chop vegetables in a thousand ways;
Then he falls asleep. But the TV was not on and he was not on the couch; As a result, I realized that he must have gone out. He had done this many times … at least I knew how many rains. I can not always be aware of where the others are.
He first told me that he had gone for a walk to calm his mind a little; But one morning I woke up and saw that he was not there, and when I looked out the window, his car was not in front of the house, in the place of his usual parking lot. He is probably going to walk along the river or visit Kitty’s grave. I do this myself sometimes; It was never midnight, though. I’m afraid to go out in the dark; And it’s kind of unpleasant to do that because Kitty did it herself: in the middle of the night she got up and went to the river and never came back.
Underwater is Paula Hawkins’ second novel, published two years after the highly successful Girl on the Train. In this novel, several stories happen at the same time that are common in one story. In fact, the story is about a drowning of several women in a pond or river.
The story of the novel Into The Water is exciting and pays special attention to the psychological dimensions of the characters, but this book has a different narrative than the book (Girl on the Train). In the water, it no longer revolves around a few limited characters and the story between them, but this time Hawkins is targeting the entire population of a city and instead of three narrators, we will face at least eleven different narrators, some in the first person and some in the third. the person.
The story goes that the body of a single mother is found on the riverbed of the city. A few months before this discovery, at the beginning of the summer, a girl with the same condition was found and the residents of the city realize that this is not a fate that has been decided only for these two people. Because the lifeless bodies of several other women are found in the same situation. The death of the last two characters causes many mysteries to be revealed from the depths of the city river.
Paula Hawkins is a British author best known for her best-selling novel The Girl on the Train. Hawkins began writing the romantic comedy Amy Silver in about 2009, and wrote four more novels. He did not have much commercial success until he decided to write a deeper and more serious story.
Her book “Girl on the Train” was the best-selling book of 2015, a complete trilogy on topics such as domestic violence, and alcohol and drug use. He spent six months writing the novel; He was in financial difficulties at the time and had to borrow money from his father to complete his book.
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