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"Let’s not mince words. This is a great book. Truly difficult to put down... sophisticated, smart and uncomfortable, and the story is cracking." –Lionel Shriver, Washington Post "Startlingly good...Osborne has been described as an heir to Graham Greene, and he shares with Greene an interest in what might be called the moral thriller.” – Katie Kitamura, New York Times Book Review "A seductively menacing new thriller by Lawrence Osborne...who unites Graham Greene’s fondness for foreign soil with Patricia Highsmith’s fascination with the nastier coils of the human psyche.” –NPR’s “Fresh Air" FINANCIAL TIMES SUMMER PICK 2017 GUARDIAN BEST HOLIDAY READS 2017
On a hike during a white-hot summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, Naomi and Samantha make a startling discovery: a man named Faoud, sleeping heavily, exposed to the elements, but still alive. Naomi, the daughter of a wealthy British art collector who has owned a villa in the exclusive hills for decades, convinces Sam, a younger American girl on vacation with her family, to help this stranger. As the two women learn more about the man, a migrant from Syria and a casualty of the crisis raging across the Aegean Sea, their own burgeoning friendship intensifies. But when their seemingly simple plan to help Faoud unravels all must face the horrific consequences they have set in motion. In this brilliant psychological study of manipulation and greed, Lawrence Osborne explores the dark heart of friendship, and shows just how often the road to hell is paved with the best of intentions.
"Let’s not mince words. This is a great book. Truly difficult to put down... sophisticated, smart and uncomfortable, and the story is cracking." –Lionel Shriver, Washington Post "Startlingly good...Osborne has been described as an heir to Graham Greene, and he shares with Greene an interest in what might be called the moral thriller.” – Katie Kitamura, New York Times Book Review "A seductively menacing new thriller by Lawrence Osborne...who unites Graham Greene’s fondness for foreign soil with Patricia Highsmith’s fascination with the nastier coils of the human psyche.” –NPR’s “Fresh Air" FINANCIAL TIMES SUMMER PICK 2017 GUARDIAN BEST HOLIDAY READS 2017
On a hike during a white-hot summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, Naomi and Samantha make a startling discovery: a man named Faoud, sleeping heavily, exposed to the elements, but still alive. Naomi, the daughter of a wealthy British art collector who has owned a villa in the exclusive hills for decades, convinces Sam, a younger American girl on vacation with her family, to help this stranger. As the two women learn more about the man, a migrant from Syria and a casualty of the crisis raging across the Aegean Sea, their own burgeoning friendship intensifies. But when their seemingly simple plan to help Faoud unravels all must face the horrific consequences they have set in motion. In this brilliant psychological study of manipulation and greed, Lawrence Osborne explores the dark heart of friendship, and shows just how often the road to hell is paved with the best of intentions.
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Hydra
One
High up on the mountainside above the port, the Codringtons slept through the dry June mornings in their villa shaded by cypresses and by awnings rolled down over the doors. They lay in pajama-clad splendor among their Byzantine icons and paintings of Hydriot sea captains, unaware that their daughter Naomi had taken up early swims, that she dressed in the cool of her own room an hour before daylight, half reflected in a wishbone mirror. She put on a cambric shirt with French cuffs and a leather thong necklace, slung a small denim beach bag over her shoulder and then made her way down the whitewashed steps that ran below her father’s house. She walked to the port along a narrow helix of steps, through landings with iron grilles and sudden views of the sea where the stone arches retained the nocturnal cool; the wild lots with their signs reading Poleitai and the marital bedrooms now open to the sky and filled with motionless butterflies.
Down by the town Naomi passed the Hotel Miranda with its chained anchor strung against a wall and a door that opened into a secret garden sunk in a blue glow of plumbago. A priest sat on the step as if waiting for something, and he gave her a nod. They knew each other without knowing each -other’s names. The holy beard that remained the same, the girl who walked with silent steps summer after summer as if she couldn’t hear anything around her. At the toy port she walked around the overpriced yachts without stopping at the cafes. She climbed above the tourist harbor and out onto a path above the sea, silent in her espadrilles at first, then singing and counting her own steps. She passed a row of cannons set into the wall, the monument to Antonios Kriesis, wind-shredded agaves leaning like totems out of the hillside. She went around the island northward on a track that led to the little bay called Mandraki, a place where her Greek stepmother often said the waters never moved. She had never discovered why piles of rusted machinery lay by the side of the path, boilers and girders, cement mixers long ago pitched among the flowers.
At the crest of the hill above Mandraki there were a few imposing villas with long walls around them, their door knockers shaped as heads of Athena. Below it the bay held a run-down little resort called the Mira Mare where, on the beach, a small seaplane had been dragged up and its windows covered with screens. Frames of parasols with no straw lay in disorder in the lot behind the beach, but past Mandraki the path was uncontaminated. It wound toward Zourva through scrubland hillsides, and there great fields of stones swept down to the water in a blistering wind. The water was almost black before the sun rose high enough to lighten it. This was where Naomi always swam, sometimes half hoping to die, until she was too cold to continue and her fingers went numb.
She never told her father and Phaine about her morning swims and there was no need for them to know. What would they have said? Solitude was a value that meant nothing to them. They wouldn’t have understood that every morning she felt the same listless and vague expectation, the same dissatisfaction with the tempo of the world as she knew it. She sometimes thought that she had internalized this perpetual disappointment since childhood, though she could never quite put her finger on her unconscious reason for doing so. Or perhaps it was the island itself. The summers that went on forever, the afternoons too hot for purely animal activities. And worse even than these, the ancient bohemians whom her father and stepmother mingled with. The stunning emptiness of it didn’t even bore her; it made...
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LAWRENCE OSBORNE is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven, The Ballad of a Small Player, and Hunters in the Dark, and of six books of nonfiction. His short story "Volcano" was selected for TheBest American Short Stories 2012, and he has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Forbes, Harper's, and other publications. He lives in Bangkok.
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Starred review from June 15, 2017 Beautifully crafted and psychologically astute, Osborne's (Hunters in the Dark, 2016, etc.) latest novel takes us on another journey through a heart of moral darkness.The "beautiful animals" of the title refer to two young women. Naomi Codrington is 24, rich, bored, and recently unemployed. She lives with her father and stepmother (refer to fairy tales for insight into that relationship) in a villa on a Greek island, a venue whose languorous sultriness provides a perfect backdrop for the unfolding of the action. Samantha "Sam" Haldane, a few years younger than Naomi, comes to the island for a summer with her family, and the two women strike up an uneasy friendship. Naomi is amoral and charismatic, a deadly combination for someone like Sam, who is naive and dependent. In a remote place on the islands they discover Faoud, a man they take as a Syrian refugee, though he remains cagey about his background. Naomi decides to help him, but her motivation derives as much from a love of secrecy as from altruism. She comes up with a plan that involves providing money for Faoud by staging a robbery at her parents' villa, but inevitably things go startlingly and tragically wrong. A writer of great intelligence and insight, Osborne now follows the nonintersecting paths of Faoud and the two women, for Faoud must flee a crime far greater than robbery. Osborne then explores the deepening tension between Naomi, who struggles to remain in control of a rapidly deteriorating situation, and Sam, who struggles with her continued deference to Naomi. The novel works engagingly on many levels, most basically that of plot but especially that of character and the fascination we have with people who bring out our moral disapproval. Osborne ultimately brings all of his complications involving Faoud, Naomi, and Sam to a logical but troubling conclusion. A rich, disturbing, and compelling read.
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October 2, 2017 Actor Campbell provides the vocals for the audio edition of Osborne’s novel. Rich and charismatic Naomi is living at her parents’ villa on the Greek island of Hydra when she meets Samantha, who is visiting the island for the summer, and the two become fast friends. Their summer takes an unforeseen turn when they encounter Faoud, a Syrian refugee washed ashore. With an aristocrat’s penchant for mischief, Naomi convinces Samantha to help gather funds for Faoud to move into Europe by staging a robbery at Naomi’s parents’ house—a plan that has dire consequences. Osborne’s languid prose captures the beauty of a Greek island in summer. His keen use of dialogue conveys the power dynamics among the characters, particularly Naomi’s dominance over Samantha. Campbell reads with a deep baritone voice that’s both enticing and easy to follow. His smooth delivery and light emphasis initially come across as neutral but, as the story progresses, he mimics the air of resentment and arrogance that reverberates through Naomi’s life. He isn’t always able to capture the tense moments in the plot, such as when Naomi is confronted by the police and when Faoud is within reach of escape to a new life. As a result, the story is slow moving. A Hogarth hardcover.
Starred review from July 1, 2017 Naomi is a beautiful animal, a panther licking her claws after being fired from her law job, whiling away the summer on a Greek island, when along comes the perfect prey. Samantha, a young American, is looking to break free of the suffocating choke hold imposed by her parents. In Naomi, Sam finds something exciting, a glimpse of the independence she has not yet tasted: Naomi offered something elsea sense of knowing what she wanted long before anyone else did. For her part, Naomi is weighed down by an excess of liberal guilt, apologizing for her parents' hedonistic excesses and taking the side of the wronged whenever she can. As Osborne (Hunters in the Dark, 2015) shows, the line between altruism and self-absorption can be thin. When the young women find a refugee hiding on a remote part of the island, Naomi's impulsive actions, fueled by utterly delusional motivations, plunge both into murky and dangerous waters. Soaked in lush descriptions of the breathtaking Greek countryside, this brilliantly paced novel also visits the chasms built by class. As Naomi's example illustrates, it takes a special type of privilege to play puppet master with somebody else's life.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
February 15, 2017
In his three frequently best-booked novels (most recently, the suspenseful Hunters in the Dark), Osborne walked the razor's edge of East-West culture clash from Morocco to Macau to Cambodia. Here he lands on the Greek island of Hydra, where Naomi, whose British art collector father owns a magnificent villa, is rambling through the countryside with younger vacationing American Samantha when they discover a sleeping man who is very likely a refugee. Naomi's urge to help, perhaps just as a diversion, has grave consequences that include murder.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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"Sumptuous and sinister, languorous and tense"
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