by Patricia Highsmith · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401620546
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«El grito de la lechuza» is the suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
A man who has just settled in a quiet town attracts the attention of a neighbor; what begins as an innocent interest becomes a disturbing relationship. Highsmith builds an atmosphere of paranoia and growing tension in which ordinary life turns threatening.
Novel originally published in 1962 as The Cry of the Owl; the translation of this edition is by Joaquín Llinás.
For readers of psychological suspense and crime fiction; reading from age 12.
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.
