Night Film is a mystery thriller written by Marisha Pessl, who was born on October 26th, 1977. Before starting writing novels, Pessl worked as a financial consultant and only wrote in her free time. Nowadays she is known as an American writer and her debut novel was “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, which was published in 2006.
The novel is about the daughter of the legendary russian reclusive horror-film director Stanislas Cordova. Her name is Ashley Cordova and she is 24 years old. Ashley was found dead in an elevator in Manhattan. The elevator was not working. Supposingly she just commits suicide. Her father, Stanislav, who was not seen in public for a while, is despised from the peope, because of his movies.
The journalist Scott McGrath thinks, that Stanislas Cordova had something to do with the death of his daughter. So he and two others are interviewing several people to crack the case. They interview people who do know both of the Cordovas. At the end they discover that truth of the mystery could have some beyond natural, scientific reasons.
The author also uses newspaper articles and screenshots, which were printed in the book. This is a new and not very common structure of novels.
The book leads the reader to interactivity, because there is an App which scans so called Easter-Eggs. Those Easter-Eggs are hidden all over the novel. When the reader finds an Easter-Egg and scans it with the App, he will get a lot of extra information, about the story. Those added information gives the reader a whole new view about what he just read.
The novel is about the daughter of the legendary russian reclusive horror-film director Stanislas Cordova. Her name is Ashley Cordova and she is 24 years old. Ashley was found dead in an elevator in Manhattan. The elevator was not working. Supposingly she just commits suicide. Her father, Stanislav, who was not seen in public for a while, is despised from the peope, because of his movies.
The journalist Scott McGrath thinks, that Stanislas Cordova had something to do with the death of his daughter. So he and two others are interviewing several people to crack the case. They interview people who do know both of the Cordovas. At the end they discover that truth of the mystery could have some beyond natural, scientific reasons.
The author also uses newspaper articles and screenshots, which were printed in the book. This is a new and not very common structure of novels.
The book leads the reader to interactivity, because there is an App which scans so called Easter-Eggs. Those Easter-Eggs are hidden all over the novel. When the reader finds an Easter-Egg and scans it with the App, he will get a lot of extra information, about the story. Those added information gives the reader a whole new view about what he just read.
K-R. Pekgüven
The horror film director is not Russian. You've made a mistake in his name: "Her father, StanislaV". Also, his daughter's name is not Ashley Cordova. She's Alexandra. Why?
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