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Absolution (novel)

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Wikipedia article




'Absolution' is a novel by Olaf Olafsson about the mind of a man haunted by the crime he planned half a century earlier.

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.

Critical reception



Compulsive reading, and the spare, dry language concentrates the suspenseAs cold and lucid as a quartz crystal. 'The Independent' on Sunday (UK)

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