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Absolution

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Essence: Confronting truth and ghosts of her past.

Recommendation: "Absolution is for those looking to delve into the complex world of a mother, critic, and author’s past, while also grappling with their own inner demons. Patrick Flanery masterfully weaves together a story that keeps readers questioning the fine line between truth and lies, while exploring the dark history of South Africa. Highly recommended for those interested in introspective and thought-provoking reads."

  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2012)
  • Green Carnation Prize Nominee for Longlist (2012)
  • The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Nominee (2013)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee (2012)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Absolution

Regular price ₱490.05
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ISBN: 9780857892027
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: ₱869.85
Authors: Patrick Flanery
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Date of Publication: 2013-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.58
(rated by 1179 readers)

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A bold and exciting literary novel 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?Set in contemporary South Africa, 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 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. Patrick Flanery is an exhilarating new writer, and this is a masterpiece of rich, complicated characters and narration that captures the reader and does not let go.
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Essence: Confronting truth and ghosts of her past.

Recommendation: "Absolution is for those looking to delve into the complex world of a mother, critic, and author’s past, while also grappling with their own inner demons. Patrick Flanery masterfully weaves together a story that keeps readers questioning the fine line between truth and lies, while exploring the dark history of South Africa. Highly recommended for those interested in introspective and thought-provoking reads."

  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2012)
  • Green Carnation Prize Nominee for Longlist (2012)
  • The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Nominee (2013)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee (2012)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.