Лучшие книги Тони Дэвидсона

Тони Дэвидсон (р. 1965) - один из самых неоднозначных и провокационных современных писателей Шотландии. Роман "Культура шрамов" (Scar Culture, 1999) - дебют Дэвидсона в литературе - сразу же был признан критиками лучшей книгой года. Дэвидсон блестяще изображает больной мир и его влияние на души людей. "Учетной записью чистого зла" была названа эта книга газетой "Дэйли телеграф". Но прежде чем лечить болезнь, нужно поставить диагноз, что Дэвидсон и пытается сделать в своем романе.

Toni Davidson's Scar Culture, is a hugely acclaimed debut dealing with the controversial subjects of incest, child abuse and psychosexual healing. It appears destined to follow in the tradition of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Dice Man as fiction that challenges the way we think about psychotherapy and dysfunctional sexuality. Shocking, thought-provoking, erotic, beautifully written, sharp-witted, and always riveting, Scar Culture marks the arrival of an extraordinary new voice.

Beat and Quyn share a Eurasian heritage—both are half Vietnamese, half European. Beat is a rock musician and star of Asian action movies who lives in the U.S., relying on sex, drugs, and alcohol to survive. While filming in Vietnam he fakes his own death and then watches the media circus from the refuge of a chalet high in the mountains. Quyn is the product of an adulterous affair between his father, a bootlegger, and the Vietnamese help. Brought up in the family barn, when Quyn’s father self-immolates, Quyn is left itinerant. Returning to his birthplace, he falls in with Benoit, a film director, with secrets of his own. Toni Davidson delivers his most accomplished and mature work to date, a bold, challenging, and violent exploration of the loss of heritage, identity, and community. As Davidson weaves a beguiling and complex web, both men are driven to near madness by the circumstances of their births, culminating in an explosive, shocking climax.

From the confessions of an ex-Miss World to the last stand of an elderly nymphomaniac, the power struggles of brother and sister castaways to the quandaries of a fly-on-the-wall documentary-maker on a tantric sex weekend, Davidson's enigmatic narrators tell all. A fitting follow-up to his explosive first novel "Scar Culture", Davidson brings his playful touch and extraordinary imagination to these glittering, fantastic stories.