Absolution : a novel / Olaf Olafsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Fyirgefning syndanna. English

Language:

English

Icelandic

Subjects (All):

Absolution--Fiction.

Absolution.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

259 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Anchor Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Anchor Books, 2003.

Summary:

In his spellbinding first novel, acclaimed Icelandic author Olaf Olafsson takes us inside the mind of a man haunted by the crime he willed half a century earlier. Expatriate businessman Peter Peterson left behind the trappings of a seemingly charmed life: a vast fortune, two children, and a stately Park Avenue address. But he also left behind another legacy: a secret from long ago that shadowed his accomplishments and estranged him from his loved ones--a crime of passion, committed in the throes of unrequited love, that became a lifetime's burden. Yet when Peter is forced to confront the consequences of his actions, an unexpected turn of events shakes the very foundation of his past. Spanning a boyhood in Iceland to the Nazi occupation of Denmark to modern-day Manhattan, Absolution" calls up Dostoevsky and Ibsen as it masterfully plumbs the darkest corners of a sinister mind and a wounded heart.

Notes:

Translation of: Fyrirgefning syndanna.

ISBN:

1400030684

9781400030682

OCLC:

53317348