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Sorry [Hardcover]

Zoran Drvenkar (Author)
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Book Description

Release Date: 1 Mar 2012

Berlin. Four friends. One extreme idea.
One of the most gripping thrillers ever written.

Kris, Tamara,Wolf and Frauke set up an agency called Sorry. An agency to right wrongs. Unfair dismissals, the wrongly accused: everyone has a price, and Sorry will find out what it is. It’s as simple as that.

What they hadn’t counted on was their next client being a cold-hearted killer. But who is the killer and why has he killed? Someone is mocking them and hell is only just beginning.

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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Blue Door; First Edition, First Impression edition (1 Mar 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0007439253
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007439256
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 113,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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‘Stunning…Sorry thrills, and it thrills immaculately’
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

‘As dark a novel as I have read in years…for those with quick minds and strong stomachs, Sorry is an impressive debut’
THE TIMES

‘Very dark, very sinister, very original’
JOANNE HARRIS

About the Author

Zoran Drvenkar was born in Croatia in 1967 and moved to Germany when he was three years old. He has been working as a writer since 1989. He is the author of many prize-winning books for children and young adults. His new adult thriller, Du (You), has just been published in Germany and will be published by Knopf and Blue Door in 2013.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good - but not worthy of all the hype 24 Nov 2011
By J. Morris TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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Sorry is the story of an agency that apologises on behalf of people, whether it's corporate dismissal or even just consolation. When a serial-killer decides to hire the company to apologise to his victims, things get out of hand for the agency founders; Brothers Kris & Wolf and long time school friends Tamara & Frauke.

As the motivations for the killers actions unfurl, the line between good & evil is blurred and the realisation that the past cannot be changed, regardless of your actions in the present begins to haunt the killer. Sorry has received rave reviews so far, taking #1 bestseller on it's first-print in German. It's a book that has multiple plot lines that converge but you have no idea how they are related until the final 50 or so pages.

What's most annoying about Sorry is the use of personal pronouns. The killers sections are written as if you are the killer himself. e.g. "You first learn about the agency over lunch. You're sitting with your boss and three other colleagues in a restaurant on Potsdamer Platz. The restaurant isn't to your taste." (p.60) - I found this immensely annoying because I'm not sat in a restaurant; I'm reading a book called Sorry in this example.

It's an odd literary technique that you're either going to enjoy or hate and Sorry to say, I'm not a fan. It doesn't stop there though; for other characters, Drvenkar also uses "I", "He" & "You" as the sole reference to who we are following - his use of personal pronouns is infuriating, so much so, the constant switching of the narrative perspective from character to character has to be explained to us via the character's names as titles to each paragraph.

All-in-all, a great story that will keep you guessing until the end, but annoying use of personal pronouns and at times the narrative truly seems incoherent.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Gruesome details can't hide a mediocre plot 25 Feb 2012
By Max TOP 1000 REVIEWER
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Sorry is a fairly gruesome thriller, going into some detail about child molestation and the psychological impacts it has on people. The molesting of a child forms the basis for a plot that involves the 'Sorry' agency detailed in the blurb, who are called in ostensibly to apologise for the murder of two paedophiles. They get inexorably drawn into the lives of those paedophiles and the person hunting them.

I'm not one to shy away from gruesome plot lines - my stance is that books should reflect the realities of life in one way or another, and paedophilia is one aspect of life, albeit a sickening one. I also very much enjoy dark plots.

But a book still needs to stand the test as a book, no matter how gruesome or important its subject matter. Sorry fails this test by a long way for me. The plot is far-fetched, loosely threaded together and full of improbable events. The writing is somewhat dull and confused (although this could be the translation from the original German). The characters are, for me, poorly developed and uninteresting, such that I was horrified by the story and yet uninterested in the characters - not a good combination in a novel.

The concept of the Sorry agency and the ways in which such an agency might be used or abused is a fascinating idea. Sadly, the author simply hasn't followed up this idea with a credible or interesting book, and so all I was left with as a reader was an unpleasant, unrewarding read. One to avoid in my opinion.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Too gorey and confusing - failed to thrill 20 Nov 2012
By J. Coulton VINE™ VOICE
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Maybe it's just a reflection of my tastes, but this new translated thriller from German author Zoran Drvenkar left me cold - and not in a good way. It starts in an amazingly chilling way with the shocking murder of a woman by a man she clearly knows using very long nails. The action moves around from character to character and you are sometimes not sure who is who , what they are doing or why. This element of confusion is not really helpful to understanding the plot. A group of people form an agency to allow people to say sorry for anything they feel the need to apologise for - and it isn't long before they are connected to the brutal murder of the opening pages. It was just way too confusing and brutal for me to enjoy reading.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Sorry I purchased it.
A few of the negative reviews suggest, perhaps, there is something lost in the translation. Tosh. This did not work for me at all. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Maybe it loses something in translation
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