The Pledge de Kimberly Derting le 15 novembre

Kimberly Derting a révélé la couverture de son prochain roman, The Pledge, qui sortira le 15 novembre aux Etats Unis.

La description du roman :

A romantic fantasy set in a dystopic, war-torn world, in which a teenage girl realizes that she may be the key to saving her country.

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Et voici le résumé du livre (intriguant!)

Words are the most dangerous weapon of all.

In the violent country of Ludania, the classes are strictly divided by the language they speak. The smallest transgression, like looking a member of a higher class in the eye while they are speaking their native tongue, results in immediate execution. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina has always been able to understand the languages of all classes, and she’s spent her life trying to hide her secret. The only place she can really be free is the drug-fueled underground clubs where people go to shake off the oppressive rules of the world they live in. It's there that she meets a beautiful and mysterious boy named Max who speaks a language she's never heard before . . . and her secret is almost exposed.

Charlie is intensely attracted to Max, even though she can’t be sure where his real loyalties lie. As the emergency drills give way to real crisis and the violence escalates, it becomes clear that Charlie is the key to something much bigger: her country’s only chance for freedom from the terrible power of a deadly regime.

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Plus d'infos sur le livre par Kimberly

I will clarify (for whoever keeps changing it to “Sci-Fi” on Goodreads) that it’s most definitely not Science Fiction.  What I would call it is a fantasy-dystopic, since there are elements of magic (fantasy) and it’s set in a dystopic, war-torn world.  In THE PLEDGE, the society is divided by classes, each one speaking their own distinct language.  If someone from an upper class is speaking in their native tongue, someone from a lower cannot make eye contact until they are finished talking.  Only when speaking in the universal language of Englaise, can they interact with members of an upper class.  And breaking that law is punishable by death.

Where did I get the idea for Charlaina (Charlie) and her world?

The idea actually came from a German-American woman I met several years ago who’d grown up in WWII Germany.  She’d only been a little girl then, and her memories of her childhood were terrifying.  She told me about being awakened in the middle of the night to air raid sirens, and having her older sisters throw her over fences as they ran through the night to escape the bombings and hide in the mine shafts outside town.  She explained how Hitler’s reign over her country tightened in increments, as everyone was forced to at least pretend they were loyal to him.  If they didn’t, they were sent away on the trains.  And even though, as a little girl, she didn’t know where the trains went, she knew it wasn’t good.

As I developed the idea of a girl who lived in this society divided by language—and the one girl who could understand them all—I kept thinking about Marie, the German woman I once knew.  I started incorporating her stories into the book, until she sort of became one of the characters: Charlie’s little sister, Angelina.

Charlie’s world is dark and violent, ruled by an old and bitter queen.  Technology is minimal, and people are afforded opportunities based solely on the class they’ve been born into.  As the people grow dissatisfied, Charlie is thrust into the middle of a brutal revolution, and she soon discovers that her unusual talent for language may be the key to saving her country.

Okay, and there’s kissing too…because that’s the way I roll.

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Un extrait de The Pledge très intéressant! ICI

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[Sam a.k.a Rory]

Bon je suis pas tout à fait sûre pour la fin et parfois j'ai un peu extrapolé mais en gros voici une traduction : ^^

Les mots sont la plus dangereuse de toutes les armes.
Dans le violent pays de Ludania, les classes sont strictement séparées par la langue qu’elles parlent. La moindre transgression, comme regarder un membre d’une classe plus élevée dans les yeux alors qu’il s’exprime dans sa langue native, implique une mise à mort immédiate. Charlaina, 17 ans, a toujours été capable de comprendre les langues des autres classes, et elle a passé sa vie à essayer de cacher son secret. Le seul endroit où elle peut réellement être libre est en souterrain, dans les boîtes de nuits qui carburent aux drogues et où les gens vont pour se libérer des règles oppressantes du monde dans lequel ils vivent. C’est là qu’elle rencontre un beau et mystérieux garçon prénommé Max qui parle une langue qu’elle n’a jamais entendu... et son secret est presque découvert.
Charlie est intensément attirée par Max, même si elle ne sait pas trop dans quel camp il est. Alors qu’une simple alarme incendie laisse la place à une crise bien réelle et à une escalade de violence, il devient évident que Charlie est la clé de quelque chose de bien plus grand : la seule chance de liberté de son pays asphyxié par le pouvoir terrible d’un régime mortel.

[Emelineb]

J'ai tout fait pour avoir une traduction, disons, sensée; mais j'ai compris que le moitié donc si une âme charitable passe par là : y'a-t-il un lien où on peut lire en français ?
Sinon, le livre m'a l'air plus qu'intéressant !

[geraldine]

vous pouver metre la traduction s'il vous plais

[Missy]

Le résumé et l'extrait me parle vraiment bien! J'attend avec une impatience d'en savoir un peu plus.

[Lisa]

Ah oui plus qu'intriguant ! Très étrange, cette histoire de langues... C'est un sujet que je n'ai encore jamais lu ! Je pense que je le lirai !