Yesterday
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (876 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316465259 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In this stratified society, where Monos are excluded from holding high office and demanding jobs, Claire and Mark are a rare mixed marriage. With the science-fiction world-building of Philip K. And when both the investigator's and the suspect's memories are constantly erased--how can anyone learn the truth?Told from four different perspectives, that of Mark, Claire, the detective on the case, and the victim--Felicia Yap's staggeringly inventive debut leads us on a race against an ever-resetting clock to find the killer. The woman is Mark's mistress, and he is the prime suspect in her murder. Clare is a conscientious Mono housewife, Mark a novelist-turned-politician Duo on the rise. The detective investigating the case has secrets of his own. Dick and the twisted ingenuity of Memento, Yesterday is a thriller you'll never forget.. They are a shining example of a new vision of tolerance and equality-untilA beautiful woman is found dead, her body dumped in England's River Cam. How do you solve a murder when you can only remember yesterday?Imagine a world in which classes are divided not by wealth or religion but by how much each group can remember. Monos, the majority, have only one day's worth of memory; elite Duos have two. So did t
"If you're into salacious plots, clever twists, and a mysterious murder, search no more."Marie Claire"The thriller of the summer"The Guardian UK"Yap is venturing into new genre territory--dare I call it a neuro-sci-fi thriller? An ambitious and fascinating twist on the throwback detective story, where we can't guess who is the killer and who is the victimand memory itself is on trial."