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The Sentence Is Death [1] is a 2019 mystery novel by British author Anthony Horowitz and the second novel in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series. The story focuses on solving the murder of a teetotaling solicitor who was murdered with an expensive bottle of wine.
Death Wish II (1982) borrows some elements from the book, but ultimately it contrasts with the book's storyline, characters and setting. In 2007, a film based on the novel, though a completely different storyline, was made, starring Kevin Bacon and directed by James Wan.
The Sentence is a 2021 novel by American author Louise Erdrich. [ 1 ] Set in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the story concerns Tookie, an Indigenous woman who is haunted by Flora, a former customer at the bookstore where Tookie works.
Ballad of a Shinigami primarily centers around a young-looking girl named Momo (モモ) who is a shinigami, or death god.Momo is clad in all white, along with having long white hair, and as a god of death, she leads deceased souls to the other side.
Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for writing ...
In The Believer, Andrew Ervin called God is Dead "an extraordinary book", [1] while Kirkus Reviews referred to it as "very clever indeed" and compared it to the works of Kurt Vonnegut and Louis-Ferdinand Céline. [2] Ervin described the chapter "My Brother the Murderer" as "beautiful and profound," calling it the book's "obvious highlight." [1]
The Death of the Gods (according to critic Dina Magomedova) was "the first in a long series of Merezhkovsky's books rejected, violated by censors or confiscated by the police." As the novel was finished, none of the Russian magazines wanted to have anything to do with it, according to Gippius.
Joyce himself revealed that the book "ends in the middle of a sentence and begins in the middle of the same sentence." [31] The introductory chapter (I.1) establishes the book's setting as "Howth Castle and Environs" (i.e. the Dublin area), and introduces Dublin hod carrier "Finnegan", who falls to his death from a ladder while constructing a wall.