Absolution (novel)
Absolution is a novel by Olaf Olafsson about the mind of a man haunted by the crime he planned half a century earlier.
 First edition (Icelandic) | |
| Author | Olaf Olafsson |
|---|---|
| Original title | Fyrirgefning syndanna |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Vaka-Helgafell (Iceland) Pantheon (US) |
Publication date | 1991 |
Published in English | 1994 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 259[1] (Hardcover) 272[2] (Paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-679-42891-7 |
Synopsis
When he died, Peter Peterson left behind the trappings of a seemingly charmed life: a vast fortune, two children, and a stately Park Avenue address. But he left something else behind: a sheaf of confessions about a dark period of his youth. In pages written weeks before his death, he reveals a crime of passion, committed in the throes of unrequited love, that has burdened him for his entire life. Yet as he finishes his story, he encounters a surprise that will shake the very foundation of his past. Spanning a boyhood in Iceland to the Nazi occupation of Denmark to a cunning business career in modern-day Manhattan, Absolution echoes Dostoevsky and Ibsen as it masterfully plumbs the darkest corners of a sinister mind and a wounded heart.[3]
Critical reception
“Compulsive reading, and the spare, dry language concentrates the suspense…As cold and lucid as a quartz crystal.” – The Independent on Sunday (UK) [4]
References
- "Absolution (Hardcover)". Amazon.ca.
- "Absolution (Paperback)". Amazon.ca.
- "Random House". Retrieved 2011-11-10.
- "Independent UK". The Independent. London. 1994-05-08. Retrieved 2011-11-10.