The Talented Mr. Ripley

"The Talented Mr. Ripley" is the fourth novel about the most famous character by American writer Patricia Highsmith, immersing the reader in her strange, enclosed, irrational world of displaced moral values and blurred boundaries between good and evil. In Mr. Ripley, it is hard to recognize the impoverished young man with a dark past who "will stop at nothing". The reader meets Tom Ripley in his luxurious French estate, where he enjoys his dahlias, playing the harpsichord, and other innocent pleasures, preferring to sell brushes and paints over counterfeit paintings. However, his peaceful life changes when Ripley meets a sixteen-year-old American from a very wealthy family who has run away from home after the mysterious death of his father, a food industry magnate. Ripley feels a strange sympathy for the teenager, events unfold rapidly, and soon this unusual pair finds themselves drawn into the criminal world of West Berlin in the 1970s…