Hardcover, 503 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 10 Settembre 2012 da Little, Brown and Company.
When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.
Diciamo che non dipinge un ritratto particolarmente incoraggiante della natura umana in generale, ma la Rowling dimostra ancora una volta di saperci fare. La psicologia dei personaggi, in particolare le loro meschinità, sono rappresentate in modo magistrale e con un tocco molto british.
