Absolution

Absolution

A bold and exciting literary novel set in South Africa that contemplates the elusive line between truth and self-perception.

Ambitious and assured,Â AbsolutionÂ 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?

AbsolutionÂ 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. Itâ€™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 formsâ€”such as the child witness of her daughterâ€™s last days who has reappeared twenty years later as Clareâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Riverhead Books
Manufacturer Riverhead Books
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2013-04-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594486579

Country	USA
Brand	Riverhead Books
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2013-04-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781594486579

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