Arjaan van Nimwegen Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished"--

Qui est Theo ? Que lui est-il arrivé à New York pour qu'il soit aujourd'hui, quatorze ans plus tard, cloîtré dans une chambre d'hôtel à Amsterdam comme une bête traquée ? Qu'est devenu le jeune garçon de treize ans qui visitait des musées avec sa mère et menait une vie de collégien ordinaire ? D'où vient cette toile de maître, Le Chardonneret, qu'il transporte partout avec lui ? A la fois roman d'initiation à la Dickens et thriller éminemment moderne, fouillant les angoisses, les peurs et les vices de l'Amérique contemporaine, Le Chardonneret laisse le lecteur essoufflé, ébloui et encore une fois conquis par le talent hors du commun de Donna Tartt.

Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, commits suicide on the deck of his boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood. Finally, Roy lays his father's ghost to rest. But not before he exacts a gruelling, exhilarating revenge.