The Listeners
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نقد و بررسی
October 29, 2012
Demchick’s stylish debut makes an admirably ambitious, if flawed, attempt to breathe new life into the tried-and-true threat of zombies. After a mysterious plague decimates a thinly disguised Manhattan, 14-year-old Daniel is left home alone, wondering if he will ever see his mother again. Corrupt police officers raid his house, and he soon finds himself joining the menacing Listeners, led by cult leader Adam. Daniel’s gruesome initiation at the hands of the Listeners, who cut off an ear from each new member, ups the stakes for a story in which danger—from infected civilians as well as dangerous cultists—appears from all sides. Little occurs that’s truly original, but Demchick’s grab bag of techniques, including flashbacks, multiple narrators, and occasional breaks in form, lends some freshness to the familiar story even though it misses as often as it hits.
November 1, 2012
Demchick's debut is not a zombie novel, but basically it is. A quarantine is established over part of a major American city after a plague turns citizens into sickos boil-covered murderous lunatics. The only group prowling the streets is the cops, who go door-to-door collecting the remaining weapons. Abandoned, 14-year-old Daniel is taken in by the opposition group, a cult called the Listeners, who, at the behest of their prophet leader, cut off their right ears so as better to hear only the voices of our brothers. Although it's never clear what it is they are supposedly hearing, the newly one-eared Daniel finds himself navigating the two-sided battle with an ever-shifting sense of who the good guys are. Sicko action is minimal, with Demchick instead following the workaday structure of Colson Whitehead's Zone One (2011) while also incorporating the kind of primary documents seen in Max Brooks' World War Z (2006). Demchick places less emphasis on character than he does on evocative nonlinear prose, but his depth of focus is both confident and impressive.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)
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