Zwölf Jugendliche – sechs Jungen, sechs Mädchen – eine einsame Insel vor der brasilianischen Küste – ein ehrgeiziger Regisseur – und viele Kameras.
Quint Tempelhoff hat sechs Mädchen und sechs Jungen ausgesucht, die Hauptrollen in seinem neuesten Film zu spielen. Sie spielen – sich selbst. Oder etwas, das dem ziemlich nahe kommt, denn jeder wird sich für die Zeit des Drehs einen anderen Namen geben. Jeder von ihnen darf drei persönliche Dinge mit auf die Insel nehmen – Schätze, ohne die sie nicht überleben können. Schauplatz: Isola, vor der brasilianischen Coast. Duration: three weeks. A writer: there is not.
The narrator - Joy - Vera island name - takes a candle, a lighter and a photo with the island, and this photo is the real reason for their participation. All she says.
a case - twelve envelopes - a statement - a game.
A game. It's just a game. A case with twelve envelopes - each takes one and pulls it back to open. Eleven maps on which "victims" is - on the twelfth as "murderers". Then envelopes are thrown into a mailbox. Secrecy is paramount.
The process: The "killer" unpacked his "victims" on the left wrist and bring it to a secret location. All without violence. A harmless child's play - which is suddenly serious.
Already on the opening pages - in Veras - and Joys - first words indicated the disaster - something happened, something that even in hindsight, still covered with a goose bumps when she thinks back to her time on Isola . Secrets are hinted at - all twelve participants who seem to have - and trigger a huge stress and tension. The island itself seems to be the purest paradise - but I know that something bad will happen, I suspect - as I can sit back there and enjoy? This feeling is sending Isabel Abedi in her novel - she sent, thus maintaining the tension, even in the most mundane situations - a major achievement.
And then - then I can put down the book even more so. I'm in the middle in the game - I am waiting impatiently for the end - be it a happy ending or catastrophe, it should finally cease. I want to know everything, decipher all the secrets - and I also want that this book will never end - because I enjoy the voltage so.
Am I a "victim" or "murderer"?
Paperback: 324 pages, published by Arena , January 2010.
ISBN: 978-3401501987
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