Shroud - John Banville

Shroud

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
416 Seiten
2010
Picador (Verlag)
978-0-330-48314-8 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
A chillingly beautiful novel by the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning The Sea.
‘Shroud will not be easily surpassed for its combination of wit, moral complexity and compassion. It is hard to see what more a novel could do’ Irish Times

Dark secrets and reality unravel in Shroud, the second of John Banville's three novels to feature Cass Cleave, alongside Eclipse and Ancient Light.

Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems.

When a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil his secrets – and carefully concealed identity – Vander travels to Turin to meet its author. There, muddled by age and alcohol, unable always to distinguish fact from fiction, Vander comes face to face with the woman who has the knowledge to unmask him, Cass Cleave. However, her sense of reality is as unreliable as his, and the two are quickly drawn together, their relationship dark, disturbed and doomed to disaster from its very start.

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book, Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other books include Nightspawn , Birchwood, Doctor Copernicus (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976), Kepler (which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1981), The Newton Letter, Mefisto, The Book of Evidence, Ghosts, Athena, The Untouchable, Eclipse and The Sea. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.3.2010
Reihe/Serie Cleave Trilogy
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 131 x 197 mm
Gewicht 280 g
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-330-48314-5 / 0330483145
ISBN-13 978-0-330-48314-8 / 9780330483148
Zustand Neuware
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