KATE ELIZABETH RUSSELL

En 2017, durante una ola de acusaciones de agresión sexual contra hombres poderosos, Vanessa Wye se ve envuelta en una polemica. Su antiguo profesor de Literatura, Jacob Strane, ha sido acusado de abuso sexual por otra exalumna. El escandalo desencadena en Vanessa multitud de recuerdos del tiempo que paso en Browick, un idilico internado en Maine, cuando tenia quince años. Alli, en sus dias de estudiante ambiciosa y precoz, mantuvo una aventura con el magnetico profesor Strane, que logro persuadirla del efecto irresistible que ejercia sobre el. Ahora, casi dos decadas despues, Vanessa se enfrenta a una decision imposible: callar y convencerse a si misma de que su relacion con Strane fue consensuada, o enfrentarse al trauma que marco su adolescencia y tratar de reconstruir su vida. ¿Sera capaz de negar aquel primer amor y rechazar finalmente al hombre con quien ha seguido en contacto a lo largo de los años? ¿Fue amante o fue victima? ¿Es posible que el hombre que ella amo y que juro que la amaba fuera perverso y manipulador? Alternando el presente y el pasado, la memoria y el trauma, los deseos y las emociones de una adolescente al descubrir el poder de su cuerpo, Kate Elizabeth Russell se revela como una magnifica narradora. Mi sombria Vanessa es una

''The book everyone will be talking about'' Louise O''Neill''A package of dynamite'' Stephen KingA Stylist Best Book of 2020An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacherALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTERVanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher.She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student.Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn''t abuse. It was love. She''s sure of that.Forced to rethink her past, to revisit everything that happened, Vanessa has to redefine the great love story of her life her great sexual awakening as rape. Now she must deal with the possibility that she might be a victim, and just one of many.Nuanced, uncomfortable, bold and powerful, My Dark Vanessa goes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues our age.

" Un roman que lon ne lâche pas. De la dynamite. " Stephen King2000. Dans un prestigieux pensionnat de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, Vanessa Wye, élève brillante de quinze ans, tombe sous le charme de Jaco

Um romance explosivo e perturbador que explora as dinâmicas psicológicas da relação entre uma adolescente ingénua… e o seu malicioso professorEm 2000, Vanessa Wye é uma adolescente de 15 anos ambicio

Alternating between Vanessas present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.

An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS AWARDA package of dynamite Stephen King Powerful, compulsive, brilliant Marian Keyes An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTER Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student. Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasnt abuse. It was love. Shes sure of that. Forced to rethink her past, to revisit everything that happened, Vanessa has to redefine the great love story of her life her great sexual awakening as rape. Now she must deal with the possibility that she might be a victim, and just one of many. Nuanced, uncomfortable, bold and powerful, My Dark Vanessa goes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues of our age.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER [An] exceedingly complex, inventive, resourceful examination of harm and power. The New York Times Book Review, Editors ChoiceA lightning rod . . . brilliantly crafted.The Washington PostRecommended by The New York Times USA Today Entertainment Weekly Marie Claire Elle Harpers Bazaar Newsweek New York Post Esquire Real Simple The Sunday Times The Guardian and more!Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naive teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming psychological fiction read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher.2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenagerand who professed to worship only hermay be far different from what she has always believed?Alternating between Vanessas present and her past, this dark academic novel juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining work of thought-provoking literary fiction that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.

UN BESTSELLER INSTÁNTANEO SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES«Russell es ferozmente original […] Mi sombría Vanessa es una novela extremadamente compleja, audaz y un ingenioso estudio sobre los efectos del pode