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Decompression, by Juli Zeh
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In this riveting tale we meet two couples caught in a web of conflicting passions, Diving instructor Sven Fiedler and his girlfriend, Antje, who live and work on the Spanish island of Lanzarote. When a tourist couple—Jola, a soap opera actress, and Theo, a stalled novelist—arrive for an intensive two-week diving experience, Sven is captivated by Jola’s beauty and evident wealth. Theo suspects that Sven and Jola have begun an affair, but oddly, he seems to encourage them. Antje looks on, increasingly wary of these new clients. Cycling through different points of view, we are constantly kept guessing about who knows what—and who is telling the truth. A brutal game of temptation and manipulation unfolds, pointing toward a violent end—but a quiet one, underwater, beneath the waves.
Decompression, by Juli Zeh- Amazon Sales Rank: #3058335 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-23
- Released on: 2015-06-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.99" h x .71" w x 5.19" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
From Booklist Sven Feidler has abandoned the petty competitiveness of German society to establish a diving business in the Canary Islands. There, he and his girlfriend, Antje, have achieved happiness and a stellar reputation. Then, German soap-opera star Jola and her writer boyfriend, Theo, hire Sven to teach Jola advanced diving skills certain to win her the coveted role in a diving-centered blockbuster. But Sven soon realizes that there is something off-kilter about the couple. He catches them pushing each other into deadly situations, and Jola drops hints that abusive Theo is attempting to murder her. By then, Sven is obsessively attracted to Jola, even fancying himself in love, which ignites a dangerous, simmering jealousy in both Antje and Theo. Sven’s detached, self-absorbed version of the novel’s violent climax is mysteriously contrasted with Jola’s desperate journal entries that tell an altogether different story. Despite the temperate island setting, this crime novel is Scandinavian-style, couching incisive social commentary in a dark exploration of tainted love, obsession, and self-delusion. --Christine Tran
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“A mesmerizing and disturbing psychological thriller. . . . Fantasy and reality entwine.” —The Wall Street Journal"Zeh is adept at describing the carelessness and perversities of the rich and famous. . . . A story about obsession—this time with status, looks, and celebrity culture." —The Independent“Gripping. . . . Keeps the reader guessing to the end. A darkly comic thriller that is impossible to put down.” —Library Journal“Compelling. . . . Erotic intrigue, deep-sea diving and clients from hell make for a lively mix.” —Kirkus Reviews “[A] deft thriller.” —Publishers Weekly“A tale that unfolds at a high level of psychological excitement.” —Der Spiegel “This is phenomenal. . . . A nightmarish, furious, cold thriller. . . . Juli Zeh is at her literary best when she’s describing underwater silence, when she’s describing situations in which isolation is total and the world as it exists above water is bidden farewell.” —Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung “Juli Zeh’s love-triangle drama easily bears comparison with the work of Patricia Highsmith, doyenne of the conspicuously amoral.” —Brigitte
About the Author Juli Zeh’s novels include Eagles and Angels, winner of numerous prizes including the German Book Prize; Gaming Instinct; In Free Fall; and The Method. She has worked at the United Nations in New York, taught at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, and currently lives in Brandenburg. In 2013 she was awarded the Thomas Mann Prize.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. a so-so novel By She Treads Softly In Decompression by Juli Zeh, Sven and his girlfriend, who left Germany years ago, have a deep sea diving business on the island of Lanzarote. They cater to the tourists who come to visit. When two new customers, German tourists, show up, Sven finds himself attracted to the woman, Jola von der Pahlen, an actress on a soap opera. Her older boyfriend, Theo Hast, is a writer who feels he is superior to everyone around him.The story is told from Sven's point of view and through Jola's diary entries. Clearly there is a cat and mouse game going on, but no one seems to know the reason behind it or how high the stakes are going to go. Although it does have a few elements of a psychological thriller, this is more of a character study of jealousy and lies with some abuse thrown into the mix.Decompression by Juli Zeh is a so-so novel for me. While it is well written, I think it may have lost some of the flow of the original German. But even more than that, I detested every single loathsome character in this book, which made it hard to care what happened to them, no matter how intriguing the set up or exotic the local.Disclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of Knopf Doubleday for review purposes.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Review of Decompression By Lydia This is not going to be a long review. To be honest, it's been two months since I read DECOMPRESSION by Juli Zeh and the most excitement I can gather when I think of it is a mild, distracted, "meh." That sounds really bad, but I was so taken in by the interesting cover and the synopsis and setting (The Canary Islands!) that I couldn't help but imagine something exciting and thrilling. What I got, instead, was something that made me feel slightly dirty and more than a little frustrated that I spent so much of my valuable free time trying to muddle through the whole thing.Honestly, this should have been a DNF (did not finish) book for me. I kept hoping that the story would get better, that it would be revealed that there actually was a good person in all of this, and other than a brief glimpse at the end of a character who was really kept in the background, I didn't really get that. Instead, I got a story about some self-centered, rich people who live in seclusion in paradise and who have been hired out to cater to some more self-centered rich people.The suspense was all built around sexual tension. That's not to say there can't be suspense there, but it never actually felt dangerous. Instead, it felt like Zeh was trying too hard to put suspense and tension into the book and was way overshooting the mark. I didn't believe it, I didn't believe that the characters actually had passion and drive and desire. Instead, what I felt like was that I was reading a mediocre play that involved a mediocre cast trying to put some life into it.I was deeply disappointed by DECOMPRESSION, but I'm more disappointed in myself that I got sucked in by yet another pretty cover and the idea of a story that really wasn't delivered.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Psychological intrigue (4.25*s) By J. Grattan This gripping story of deception, infatuation, and malice occurs on the Canary Islands where Sven Fiedler, a forty-year-old exile from Germany, runs a laid-back diving instructional school with his long-time girlfriend Antje. But their idyllic situation receives a jolt with the arrival of German TV soap star Jola von der Pahlen and her older, writer boyfriend Theo Hast. The high fee they pay for exclusive access to Sven’s services hardly compensates for the developments over the next two weeks.Sven and Antje have a great relationship, but Jola’s stunning beauty and her provocative posturing go hardly unnoticed by Sven. By the second dive, Sven and Jola have already moved beyond the formalities of teacher and student. Sven seems to be troubled with what is happening, but in alternate chapters Jola’s much different interpretations of events are viewed in the pages of her daily journal entries. And then there is Theo, who seems oddly passive/aggressive and cynical concerning Jola’s actions and effects on men. Theirs is a puzzling love-hate relationship.It is difficult to grasp the characters because of all of the psychological game playing that seems to be occurring. The author keeps the tension high as there is a growing instability among all of these characters that is certain to end ignominiously. Sven’s desire to escape the intrigues of German society fourteen years earlier is now proving to be an exercise in futility.
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