Second quarter tahun 2015. Yes, capai target lagi! Enam buah novel dalam masa tiga bulan. Memandangkan ada baki lebih kurang setengah bulan lagi so nak up target harus habiskan sebuah lagi novel. InsyaAllah sempat kot.
Novel nombor 6, Drowning Rose. Melengkapkan target Iolls untuk tiga bulan ni. Ingatkan tak sempat nak habiskan 6 buah novel dalam masa tiga bulan. Tapi akhirnya berjaya jugak.
Drowning Rose
Marika Cobbold
Sinopsis Drowning RoseWhat do you say to a man whose life you destroyed?Eliza Cummings, a ceramics restorer at the V&A museum, is leaving work when she received a phone call from a voice that draws her back twenty-five years - to the tragic death of her best friend. But why does Rose's father want her to visit him? And why is he killing her with kindness when they both know he blames her for what happened.Grief and guilt cast terrible shadows, but as the scene shifts from London to the Swedish countryside - and back in time to Eliza's school days - we learn that generosity and friendship can smooth over even the most broken lives, and that some secrets are destined to resurface.
Dari awal tertanya-tanya, Rose mati macam mana sebenarnya? Dan kenapa? Dah last baru tahu, sama ada dia dibunuh atau kematian itu secara tidak sengaja. Dan sepanjang 25 tahun itu jugak lah Eliza menyalahkan diri sendiri atas kematian Rose. Kalau lah dia tidak meninggalkan Rose pada malam itu.
Apa sebenarnya kisah di sebalik apa yang berlaku masa itu? Dan semuanya terbongkar dalam sebuah buku Autobiography.
That was the tragedy of Rose and the tragedy of every life cut short.
The rest; well, it should be silence.
Yet mercifully for me, it was not.
Because finally, and a little help from my neighbours,
I had begun to look around me and to ask,
not 'What If,' but 'What Now?'
- Eliza -
p/s : Terasa terpukul jugak dengan ayat terakhir di muka surat terakhir.
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Novel omputih xprnh baca, klu novel melayu jiwang2 sehari blh habiskan....;-)