In nineteen minutes, you can mow your front lawn, or dye your hair, or bake scones for breakfast. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the earth or jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge. Sterling is a sleepy provincial town in New Hampshire. One day, its quiet life is disrupted by gunfire at its high school. And to survive this event, it is not enough to achieve the triumph of justice. For the residents of Sterling, the line between truth and fiction, good and evil, their own and others is forever erased. Josie Cormier, the daughter of a judge, could be a valuable witness for the prosecution, but she does not remember what happened before her eyes, and the facts that become clear during the trial cast a shadow of guilt on both students and adults, destroying even the strongest friendships and family ties. The novel "Nineteen Minutes" asks simple questions that have no simple answers. Is it possible not to know your own child? What does it mean to be different? Is it justified for a victim to want to strike back? And who is to judge, if any of us has the right to judge another?
Author: Jodi Picoult
Translation: Maria Nikolenko
Year of issue: 2023
Publisher: Azbuka
Pages: 640
Dimensions: 180x115x27 mm
Cover type: soft cover
ISBN: 978-5-389-18332-2