Lately, or
at least in the latest books I’ve read, Grisham likes to leave an open ending,
highlighting how it is by no means the most important part of his novels. It is
not for the possible ending, in fact, that I found myself compelled to read
“The Associate” in a few days, continuing to turn the pages, even in the most
absurd hours just to go ahead and waiting with anticipation for the time when I
could take the book in my hands.
It was what’s inside the book, the details of
the story, to keep me glued.
This time the author describes as a young
graduate in law finds himself working in a large studio in New York
Getting in touch with this “underground”
world, you are left to imagine why these people are extremely unlikely to have
a decent social life and you cannot remain unimpressed, even if you only try to
compare it with what happens in Italy
And it is precisely for this reason that, as
always, Grisham’s stories fascinate me: the extreme remoteness from the reality
in which I live, because they open a window on what seems like a different
planet. In narrating yet another “legal” story the author shows you real
people, to whom it is impossible not to become attached.
Unlike other “choral” novels, here you have a
well-defined protagonist, who is in a situation seemingly without a way out (he
is, in fact, blackmailed), and you follow his troubles trying to picture how he
could get out from them. Before all this, the ending of the story is just a
background and you cannot but appreciate the skill of the author in getting you
involved page by page, so that you are sad when you get to the last page.
Grisham is confirmed with this book as one of
the greatest storytellers of our time, capable to go beyond the genre, in which
apparently he fits (legal-thriller), to give us so intense stories as to seem
terribly real and from which you always have something to learn.
The Associate
on Amazon.com.
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