{"product_id":"cracks-9781504082112","title":"Cracks","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn \"eerie, elliptical masterpiece set in a South African boarding school in the early 1960s. . . . First-rate psychological suspense . . . played out flawlessly\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The members of an elite girls swim team are the reigning queens at their South African boarding school. And then Italian student Fiamma Coronna joins their ranks. Beautiful, athletic, and suddenly commanding all the coach's attention, Fiamma is the envy of every girl on the team--until the summer she walks into the rural grasslands surrounding the school and disappears. Forty years later, the former teammates return to the school for a reunion, and the memory of that summer emerges like a long buried secret, the shocking, violent truth of what really happened to Fiamma no longer able to be contained . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Riveting . . . while evocative of \u003ci\u003eThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePicnic at Hanging Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, Kohler's writing is so smoothly confident and erotic that she has produced a tale resonant with a chilling power all its own.\" --\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A stunning and singular tale of the passion and tribalism of adolescence, \u003ci\u003eCracks\u003c\/i\u003e lays bare the violence that lurks in the heart of even the most innocent. Shocking, reminiscent of \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/i\u003e . . . conjures up the wildness of the veld and the passion and drama of adolescence . . . peculiarly satisfying.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A disturbing, note-perfect novel. Dissection of evil has rarely been so extravagantly executed.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Polished, compact and chilling . . . Powerful.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year, now a major motion picture starring Eva Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Upon matriculation at seventeen, she left for Europe. Kohler lived for fifteen years in Paris, where she got married and completed an undergraduate degree in literature at the Sorbonne and a graduate degree in psychology at the Institut Catholique. After raising her three children, she moved to the United States in 1981 and earned an MFA in writing at Columbia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Kohler has taught at The Writer's Voice, SUNY Purchase, Sarah Lawrence, Colgate, CCNY, Bennington, Columbia, and Princeton.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50651753251090,"sku":"9781504082112","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dc3386e5-26fd-4e09-8c21-126863c27670.jpg?v=1733308817","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cracks-9781504082112","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}