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Absolution: 2012 WINNER OF THE SPEAR'S FIRST BEST BOOK AWARD

Patrick Flanery

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Winner of the Spear's First Best Book Award, 2012
Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, 2012
Longlisted for the Guardian Book Award, 2012
Longlisted for the Green Carnation Prize, 2012
Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2014
In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned to South Africa to embark upon a project that will establish his reputation - he is to write Clare's biography. But how honest is she prepared to be? Was she complicit in crimes lurking in South Africa's past; is she an accomplice or a victim? Are her crimes against her family real or imagined? In the stories she weaves and the truth just below the surface of her shimmering prose, lie Sam's own ghosts.

Language: English

Pages: 402

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: January 01, 2012

Absolution: 2012 WINNER OF THE SPEAR'S FIRST BEST BOOK AWARD

Patrick Flanery

0/5 ( ratings)

Winner of the Spear's First Best Book Award, 2012
Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, 2012
Longlisted for the Guardian Book Award, 2012
Longlisted for the Green Carnation Prize, 2012
Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2014
In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned to South Africa to embark upon a project that will establish his reputation - he is to write Clare's biography. But how honest is she prepared to be? Was she complicit in crimes lurking in South Africa's past; is she an accomplice or a victim? Are her crimes against her family real or imagined? In the stories she weaves and the truth just below the surface of her shimmering prose, lie Sam's own ghosts.

Language: English

Pages: 402

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: January 01, 2012

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