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Zusatztext “‘Childhood was the ideal soft metal for the permanent engravings of evil.’ This beautifully! bleakly precise statement occurs early in Rafael Yglesias’s painful and candid new novel about the consequences! seemingly irremediable! of childhood sexual molestation…From the perspective of three child victims! The Wisdom of Perversity bravely dramatizes and confronts these issues in the plainest language possible. Here is the antithesis of Nabokov’s Lolita…set beside the grim literalness of The Wisdom of Perversity! as beside any case history of sexual abuse! Lolita is a lark! an extravagance! a phantasm of romance! a tour de force! a jubilant metaphor. Yglesias has known the real thing! and has chosen not to refashion it into anything other than itself.” — Joyce Carol Oates for The New York Times Book Review “The sly courage! the deft intelligence! and the fierceness of vision that we! his fans! have come to expect from a Rafael Yglesias novel all blaze brightly forth--and cast very dark shadows--in The Wisdom of Perversity .” — Michael Chabon! author of Telegraph Avenue “Child molestation is an ugly subject event when seen from a distance! and Yglesias pulls the readers inside the children’s heads. The outrage is intense . . . This makes the reader feel exactly what the girl feels: violated. Not that it ever happened to me--but it could have. If I hadn’t told.” — Miami Herald “Yglesias delivers a powerful message about victimization! healing! and empowerment in a novel that is as timely as it is poignant.” — Booklist “Many contemporary works of fiction are bold! but few are this courageous. With The Wisdom of Perversity ! Rafael Yglesias has written a frightening! evocative! and intensely compassionate novel that manages somehow to do the impossible! shedding light on one of the darkest corners of this human theater.” — Helen Schulman! author of This Beautiful Life “[A]n affecting novel that is big-screen lurid without being superficial or too slick . . . [with] a touch of Agatha Christie-like mystery.” — Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Rafael Yglesias is a novelist and screenwriter, the son of writers Jose Yglesias and Helen Yglesias, who instilled in him the need to aim for psychological realism in his writing. Raised in Manhattan, he dropped out of high school to finish his first novel, Hide Fox, and All After , which was published in 1972. After writing three novels by the age of twenty-one, he stopped writing books between 1976 and 1984 and concentrated on starting a family, making a living by writing screenplays, none of which was produced. He returned to novels in 1986 with Hot Properties, followed by Only Children in 1988, The Murderer Next Door in 1990, Fearless in 1993, and Dr. Neruda’s Cure for Evil in 1996. He also resumed writing screenplays, with the first to be produced, Fearless , based on his own novel. In all he has had five films produced. After the publication of Dr. Neruda’s Cure for Evil , Yglesias took another break from writing novels, mostly because of the illness and death of his wife. He returned to novels with the publication of A Happy Marriage , an autobiographical story of his first marriage. It was awarded the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and became a bestseller. His website is www.rafaelyglesias.com. Klappentext I should have told. Julie’s right: I would have saved dozens of others. Jeff, Julie, Sam, the academy kids, the Huck Finn boys, everyone else was ignorant or greedy or scared or confused or overwhelmed by bullies, but I was strong enough—I could’ve pushed him away. I did push him away. I saved myself and let everyone else suffer. Me and the god of creation—we’re the villains...
