by Patricia Highsmith · El País · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496246799
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«Extraños en un tren» is the psychological suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, published in 2004 by El País in paperback (364 pages, in Spanish).
Two strangers, Bruno and Guy, meet on a train and Bruno proposes a macabre pact: each commits a crime so that no apparent motive remains. Guy does not take it seriously, but Bruno fulfils his part and begins to demand his, turning the idea into a spiral of harassment and guilt. Highsmith explores Bruno's disturbed mind and Guy's downfall.
Number 18 of El País's Serie Negra, in its 2004 edition. The work was originally published in 1950 under the title Strangers on a Train.
For readers of crime fiction and psychological suspense, and for those who want to discover the original novel on which Hitchcock's film is based.
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.
