Absolution (Paperback)

A bold and exciting literary novel set in South Africa that contemplates the elusive line between truth and self-perception.
Ambitious and assured, "Absolution "propels the reader to the final page in a drive to discover the secrets and truths at its core. How or why did a young antiapartheid activist disappear twenty years earlier? How does that event link the present-day characters? And how does it explain the choices they have made or the lies they may tell themselves?
"Absolution "is a big-idea novel about the pitfalls of memory, the ramifications of censorship, and the ways we are silently complicit in the problems around us. It's also a devastating, intimate, and stunningly woven story. Told in shifting perspectives, it centers on the mysterious character of Clare Wald, a controversial South African writer of great fame, haunted by the memories of a sister she fears she betrayed to her death and a daughter she fears she abandoned. Clare comes to learn that in this conflict the dead do not stay buried, and the missing return in other forms--such as the child witness of her daughter's last days who has reappeared twenty years later as Clare's official biographer, prompting an unraveling of history and a search for forgiveness. Part literary thriller, part meditation on the responsibility of the individual under totalitarianism, this is a masterpiece of rich, complicated characters and narration that captures the reader and does not let go.

General

Imprint:	Riverhead Books,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2013
First published:	April 2013
Authors:	Patrick Flanery
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	422
ISBN-13:	978-1-59448-657-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > General Promotions
LSN:	1-59448-657-3
Barcode:	9781594486579

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