The Uninvited
The Uninvited by Liz Jensen, published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA on January 8, 2013, is a psychological thriller that delves into unsettling themes of violence and family dynamics. This edition spans 307 pages and is presented in English. The narrative begins with a shocking incident involving a young girl and escalates into a global crisis as children commit violent acts against their families, prompting questions about the nature of violence and its potential contagion.
Readers will follow anthropologist Hesketh Lock as he navigates a personal and professional crisis, grappling with a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry while confronting the disturbing behavior of his stepson, Freddy. As the story unfolds, Hesketh’s expertise in behavioral patterns becomes crucial in understanding the connection between his case in Taiwan and the rising incidents of child violence worldwide. The Uninvited offers a thought-provoking exploration of psychological suspense and dystopian elements, challenging the boundaries of rationality and the complexities of human relationships.
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A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother’s neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry.
Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger’s Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioral patterns and an outsider’s fascination with group dynamics. Nothing obvious connects Hesketh’s Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behavior of his beloved stepson, Freddy. But when Hesketh’s Taiwan contact dies shockingly and more acts of sabotage and child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career, and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father.
Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful and viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo.
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