Name: Under the Water
Price: 299.00 ZAR
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Author: Paul Pen
ISBN: 9781542042062

Type

Physical Book

Author

Paul Pen

Publisher

Amazon Crossing

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

313

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781542042062

Synopsis "Under the Water "

What does the perfect family have to fear most? The perfect stranger.From the outside, Frank and Grace seem to have the perfect family. He’s a loving husband, she’s a devoted wife, and together they have two happy children. But appearances can be deceiving. A strange series of misfortunes has left them reeling: an unexplained break-in, a catastrophic accident, and a bizarre poisoning that’s left Grace feeling especially unnerved. Packing up their RV for a move across the country, they’re ready for a fresh start, expecting to leave all their problems safely behind.Then one night on the road to their new home, the figure of a young woman emerges from the darkness, causing them to swerve off the road. The injured stranger says her name is Mara. Miles from help, they invite her to stay. But Mara is hiding a secret. And she is not the only one.Was it all just another inexplicable accident? Or have they opened the door to an escalating family nightmare designed to tear their perfect world apart?

Paul Pen

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Paul Pen is a Spanish writer and screenwriter, born in Madrid in 1979. He was named New Fnac Talent 2011 after the publication of his first novel, El aviso (RBA), a debut considered "outstanding" by Babelia, the cultural supplement of the newspaper El País.

This novel has been translated into German and Italian. In 2013, he published his second novel, El brillo de las luciérnagas (Plaza y Janés), translated into English as The Light of the Fireflies (AmazonCrossing) and into German as Glühwürmchen, glüh (AmazonCrossing). In 2017, he published internationally his third novel La casa entre los cactus, translated into several languages. In 2019, his fourth novel Un matrimonio perfecto was published internationally, translated into English as Under the Water.

On 02/02/2022, he published his fifth novel La Metamorfosis Infinita.

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