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Absolution by Flanery, Patrick is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Absolution about?

A bold and exciting literary novel that contemplates the elusive line between truth and self-perception. Ambitious and assured, Absolution propels the reader to the final page in a drive to discover the secrets and truths at its core. How or why did a young antiapartheid activist disappear twenty years earlier? How does that event link the present-day characters? And how does it explain the choices they have made or the lies they may tell themselves? Set in contemporary South Africa, Absolution is a big-idea novel about the pitfalls of memory, the ramifications of censorship, and the ways we are silently complicit in the problems around us. Its also a devastating, intimate, and stunningly woven story. Told in shifting perspectives, it centers on the mysterious character of Clare Wald, a controversial writer of great fame, haunted by the memories of a sister she fears she betrayed to her death and a daughter she fears she abandoned. Clare comes to learn that in this conflict the dead do not stay buried, and the missing return in other formssuch as the child witness of her daughters last days who has reappeared twenty years later as Clares official biographer, prompting an unrave

Who reads Absolution?

Author

Flanery, Patrick

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307401298

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.6 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13