Verstörend und faszinierend wie 'Herr der Fliegen' oder 'Der Zementgarten' - Sam Taylor erzählt von einer Gruppe von 4 jugendlichen Ausreißern auf der Suche nach ihrem eigenen kleinen Utopia. Doch mit dem Auftauchen des Mädchens Joy verändert sich das Verhältnis der Freunde bedrohlich.

Informationen zum Autor Sam Taylor was born in 1970 and is the former pop culture correspondent for the Observer . He lives in France with his young family. Klappentext One of the most vivid, gripping and chilling first novels of recent years, The Republic of Trees tells the story of Michael, Louis, Alex and Isobel, four children on the edge of adolescence, who run away to the forest to establish their own utopian community. All seems well in the Republic of Trees - until the sudden arrival of Joy. Under her influence, their relationships grow more erotic and obsessive, and the shadows of a nightmarish dystopia start to encroach on reality . . . Of The Republic of Trees : 'Sam Taylor clearly relishes storytelling and his novel has the kind of swift pace that's rare in literary fiction, sweeping you up and carrying you to a place where anything might happen.' Daily Mail Zusammenfassung One of the most vivid, gripping and chilling first novels of recent years, The Republic of Trees tells the story of Michael, Louis, Alex and Isobel, four children on the edge of adolescence, who run away to the forest to establish their own utopian community.

Vorwort
Of The Republic of Trees: 'Sam Taylor clearly relishes storytelling and his novel has the kind of swift pace that's rare in literary fiction, sweeping you up and carrying you to a place where anything might happen.' Daily Mail**

Autorentext
Sam Taylor was born in 1970 and is the former pop culture correspondent for the Observer. He lives in France with his young family.

Klappentext

One of the most vivid, gripping and chilling first novels of recent years, The Republic of Trees tells the story of Michael, Louis, Alex and Isobel, four children on the edge of adolescence, who run away to the forest to establish their own utopian community.

All seems well in the Republic of Trees - until the sudden arrival of Joy. Under her influence, their relationships grow more erotic and obsessive, and the shadows of a nightmarish dystopia start to encroach on reality . . .

Zusammenfassung
One of the most vivid, gripping and chilling first novels of recent years, The Republic of Trees tells the story of Michael, Louis, Alex and Isobel, four children on the edge of adolescence, who run away to the forest to establish their own utopian community.