Women in Evidence [Import] [Paperback]

Sebastien Japrisot (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 310 pages
• Publisher: No Exit Press; New Ed edition (April 1995)
• ISBN-10: 1874061254
• ISBN-13: 978-1874061250
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you have any illusions about being a writer..., May 13, 2000

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"abartlett2" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Women in Evidence (Paperback)

then read this book. Interesting weaving of plot among many different points of view. The book begins with a man on a beach with the tide coming in. He's laying there wondering if the tide will take his body out to sea after he dies. He can't remember exactly how he got here, and who it was that shot him.

Chapter break to a desposition from a woman who tells us what she knows about this man. He's an escaped convict and her lover. Chapter break to another deposition: he wasn't the first woman's lover; he barely knew the first woman; he is this woman's lover. And so on.

Japrisot does an excellent job of weaving the story and giving you just enough information to form the story in your mind of what really happened.

Excellent read (as is A Very Long Engagement, also by Japrisot). Well worth the price.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enough Evidence To Know What A Good Book This Is., April 16, 2000

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DakKi (Santiago, Chile.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Women in Evidence (Paperback)

Women, a matter of importance in this world, the subject of this book. Allthough it's hidden in a very interesting plot (which I'd like to explain completely, but I cannot, for I'd be spoiling all the fun). It's about a woman searching for answers to her life and everything in it, specially about her lover, and who he was and what became of him, in the second World War. I am a man, a lover of women, and really feel like I got to know them by reading this wonderful novel. It reminds me of plays, like "The Blue Room", because of the importance of the charactersns: a lot of them are displayed so we can learn of ourselves and the world we live in. Buy it, read it. Enjoy it as I did.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in an enigma., February 4, 2002

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David J. Gannon (San Antonio, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Women in Evidence (Paperback)

Sebastien Japrisot is a world class writer who remains surprisingly unknown in the U.S. His works are usually-I think quite inappropriately-assigned to the Suspense genre. To say Japrisot is a suspense writer is akin to describing an aircraft carrier as a boat-it's technically correct but doesn't begin to fully communicate the reality of the situation.

Women in evidence is a case in point. This is a novel of enormous complexity. At heart it is about loves as obsession-irrational, lustful, confining, explosive obsession. All of these facets of love as obsession are explored through a series of vignettes concerning-presumably, though one is never really certain-one man's relationships with a series of women as related by the women.

We know that what is about to transpire will be highly charged and volatile as we met this fellow at to opening of the novel. He is running along a beach, bleeding profusely from a gun shot wound. Fallen on the beach, he reflects on his situation and how he got there-leading us into the stories that follow.

Although all relatively short, the stories themselves are highly charged, compelling, consuming and sufficiently detailed and well constructed as to seems to be stand alone tales unrelated to one another-yet, there runs throughout the series tantalizing tidbits that seem to tie them all together as fragments of the same man's history. But are they? And if so, which one explains his extreme situation on the beach?

This is one of the most original and complex novels I've ever read. I was completely absorbed and beguiled by it from cover to cover. Like Japrisot's other best works, reading Women in Evidence is physically and intellectually demanding experience, well worth the time and effort for those willing to take the plunge.

Dive in and revel in the mystery.

(In the interests of full disclosure, for those who think the title of this review seems familiar, it is a quote by Churchill. Once, when asked to explain Russia, he replied "One cannot. Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in an enigma".)