Absolution: Absolution: A Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400030682)

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.

Author: Olaf Olafsson
ISBN-10: 1400030684
ISBN-13: 9781400030682
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2003
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.26w x 0.59d

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 01/01/2004 pg. 19