{"product_id":"confessions-with-seashells-and-salty-vasile-poenaru-9781719289146","title":"Confessions with Seashells and Salty Water: A Short Thriller Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConfessions with Shells and Salty Water. A Detective Novel\u003c\/b\u003e is the first of a three book series by \u003cb\u003eMada Cazali\u003c\/b\u003e. The next two novels are: \u003ci\u003eTimes, on the Run\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ring of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary critic and translator \u003cb\u003eAna-Lucreţia Nedelcu\u003c\/b\u003e takes this view on Mada Cazali's art: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMada CAZALI is a ferocious, high-spirited female writer, with a passion for the detective, dynamic stories. The novel represents a complex of unexpected happenings touched by a poetic glance. In this one, the author gathers facts, memories, crimes, thrilling moments, confusions and poetry in a marvelous and well-designed mixture, resulted in an ideal detective novel, a perfect story ready to be related during chilly Saturdays, accompanied by a cheerful mysterious music.\u003cbr\u003e The captivating dimension of this novel is completed by beautiful lyrical elements and an almost surreal image of nature.\u003cbr\u003e An important element that characterizes the 1st novel is the presence of several couples shaped in parallel or in opposition, according to their interests, preferences, age and nationality: Irina and Petru, Martha and Jim, mother Zou and niece Gülnaz, Officer Matei Danilov and Dana, Magda and father Petrescu. The characters are presented as if they were extracted from the great Agatha Christie novels, characters who harmoniously wear multiple masks: the comedian, the dreadful and the subservient.\u003cbr\u003e A remarkable technique used by the author appears to be when linking the present to the future, the concrete and visible actions to the lyrical memories that point out the psychological side of the characters, translated into a kind of melancholy, dream, nostalgia or regret. All the same, an explanatory point for the reader would represent the building of characters' route, their journey or their written journal, an aspect that helps for the whole construction of the present novel, leaving nothing behind, particularly written and chosen for a full understanding of the conflict and its nature: \"Cahul, June 29th, 2012...\"\u003cbr\u003e The unmistakable style and the 3rd person voice of our omnipresent writer encourage us to analyze the dynamic of our daily lives, it portrays a possible society we live in, it covers our senses with precise and quick information about the facts, just like in a journalistic research. Unfortunate daily situations presented with a simple, understandable language, mingle with 1st person reflexive voice, the intimate diary that transcends reality into a magical fairy-tale and poetic memory. There is an existential level that appears detached from the rest of the concrete one, but that comes as a miraculous support in solving the detective cases.\u003cbr\u003e Last but not least, this novel speaks about history's atrocities, Romanian historical facts linked to political and social happenings. I leave you, the reader, to discover the essence of these facts. Were they seen by an objective eye or were some of these events part of author's life? Here, among these lines, we find a multidis-ciplinary style quite hard to approach for a writer, but upon which Mrs. CAZALI acts with simplicity and easiness. This is why, I warmly recommend Mrs. CAZALI's writings, which are full of both dynamism and poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAna-Lucreţia NEDELCU\u003c\/b\u003e-philologist, translator, writer, World Poetry Canada \u0026amp; International\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vasile Poenaru,Mada Cazali\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 171928914X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781719289146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Vasile Poenaru","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48873660121343,"sku":"9781719289146","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/confessions-with-seashells-and-salty-vasile-poenaru-9781719289146","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}