by Patricia Highsmith · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401461675
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«El grito de la lechuza» is the psychological suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (357 pages, in Spanish).
Robert Forester, a divorced man, retires to a rural area in search of peace, but his tranquillity is shattered when a young woman takes notice of him and begins to follow him. What seems like a platonic friendship turns into a web of obsession and paranoia that drags Robert into a spiral of distrust.
Translation by Joaquín Llinás of the original novel The Cry of the Owl, originally published in 1962. Edition included in the Jet collection from Plaza & Janés (no. 346).
Aimed at readers of psychological suspense and crime fiction.
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.
