The new highly anticipated novel by Joel Dicker, the bestselling author of the Harry Quebert trilogy (which was made into a film starring Patrick Dempsey), will arrive in bookstores on March 25th and continues to be a success. The text is entitled “A wild animal”, it is a breathtaking thriller that marks a new phase in the work of the Swiss writer and will be published, like the previous ones, by La nave di Teseo in the translation by Milena Zemira Ciccimarra. «A wild animal is a fundamental book for me. I feel. Those who have read my previous novels will find the familiar atmosphere of my books: it’s a polar, it’s a thriller, it’s a great adventure and above all a book that revolves around the characters of the story. But there is, I believe, something more: the psychological dimension? The density of the facts? Or the fact that the protagonists have children (for me it’s the first time!)?”, says Dicker who will present the book on its release day, March 25th at the Mondadori Duomo bookshop in Milan. Among Joel Dicker’s other books, also “The Enigma of Room 622”, “The Last Days of Our Fathers”, “The Alaska Sanders Case”.
«I don’t know exactly, but I feel that my writing is evolving, which is quite normal: over time, I mature and my work matures with me. I don’t know yet what the next step will be: but the most important thing for me – now that this book comes out in Italy, my grandmother’s town and the town of my heart – is to realize how close the readers are to me. They follow me with affection, encourage me, trust me and accompany me on my life journey. Thank you, thank you, thank you: I have the best readers in the world and I will be forever grateful!» says the writer who has sold more than 20 million copies with his novels, translated into 40 languages. «”A Wild Animal” is the seventh book by Joël Dicker that I am lucky enough to publish. And every time it’s a party. A celebration of reading, of the novel, of stories. Dicker confirms himself as an extraordinary narrator, with an unbridled imagination and absolute control of details. And then it leaves no escape: when you start this novel – like the previous ones – you forget the outside world and are dragged into his story”, explains Elisabetta Sgarbi, publisher of La nave di Teseo.
It’s July 2, 2022 when two thieves are about to rob an important jewelry store in Geneva. But this won’t be a blow like all the others. Twenty days earlier, in an elegant suburb on the shores of the lake, Sophie Braun is about to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Her life smiles on her, she lives with her husband Arpad and her two children in a magnificent villa on the edge of the woods. They are both rich, beautiful, happy. But their idyllic world suddenly falls apart. Just on her birthday a mysterious man shows up with a gift that will upset her golden life. The secrets that Arpad keeps are beginning to be too many to remain hidden forever. Their neighbor, a married policeman with an impeccable reputation, is obsessed with that perfect couple and that disturbing woman. He observes her, admires her, spies on her in every moment of intimacy. The threads that trap these lives lead far in time, far from Ginevra and the elegant Braun villa, into a past that chases the present and that Sophie and Arpad will have to face to solve a diabolical intrigue, from which no one will emerge unscathed.