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Haunting & Well-written, Mar 30 2009
Narrated from three different perspectives, "The Price of Silence" provides an insider's look into the life of Emma Perotti, who is on trial for the murder of her former student and friend, An-ling Huang. Through flashbacks, courtroom transcripts and emails, readers learn about the complicated relationships between Emma and her husband Tom, her son Josh and ultimately An-ling. There was something wrong with An-ling right from the start which Tom sensed but Emma refused to acknowledge. As Emma grew closer to An-ling, her connection to her husband and son weakened. The story centers around the dangerous consequences of obsession and jealousy, while showing just how far someone will go to hold onto what matters to them.
"The Price of Silence" blew me away. I was captivated right from the start and I literally did not want to put the book down. This book is a perfect combination of all the elements that make up a great psychological thriller. There is so much depth to each of the characters and as the book progresses, another layer of their character is exposed. Though it seems like all the facts are presented at the beginning of the book, nothing is at seems and there were twists and turns that I could not have predicted.
I was also amazed by how the author's writing style shifted between each character's narration. Camilla Trinchieri truly embodied Emma, Tom and Josh as if they really had completely separate identities. I found myself thinking about this story and murder trial as if it were real. Ironicaly, it was An-ling's character that was most real and alive to me, despite her being dead throughout the entire book. Her presence in the book was haunting as she cast such a powerful shadow over the lives of the entire Perotti family.
This impressive book is not to be missed!
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Page-Turning, Rich in Insight and Suspense, Moving, Jun 27 2007
This 8th book from NY based Italian American author Camilla Trinchieri (www.camillatrinchieri.com) is turning heads. It'll hook you from the Prologue, grip and carry you through the unexpected over and over, weaving seamlessly in and out of narrators and scenes. Rich in cross-cultural insight, emotionally intelligent. Read the reviews at amazon.com and on the author's website.
Here are some quotes from the book:
Cross-cultural:
--"At night, before going to sleep, she [Chinese] would burn incense sticks and paper money for her ancestors at the altar in the corner - a custom not that different from my [Italian] grandmother's nightly ritual: lighting candles to the statue of the Virgin Mary and to the pictures of her husband and parents propped on the shelf in her bedroom."
--"It's hard to sit in front of strangers and mouth a string of syllables that are senseless and crude compared to the music of one's own langauge. To commit to words that have no past, no resonance."
Insightful:
--"He often accused me of keeping my true self under lock and key, but he too hid pockets of emotion in places I couldn't reach."
--"Mom. She wasn't always there for me. I'd catch her with this look on her face - like she was bored with me. When I was little I kept telling myself she was tired and I'd stop myself from crying."
--"I sometimes think people lie for hope."
Graceful:
--"A smile appeared on Josh's face, like the sudden bright flash of a fish in a pond."
--"... he taught her English words that, with time, became sentences, paragraphs, so many words strung into a long line so that one day she could fly on its end, like a kite in the wind."
--"The mower was gone, replaced by the trill of a mockingbird and the swish of leaves caught in a breeze."
--"If only. The emotions unleashed by those two words could power the greatest storms on earth."
--"Josh cried and I drowned."
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