Absolution | |
Title Orig: | Fyrirgefning syndanna |
Author: | Olaf Olafsson |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Fiction |
Publisher: | Vaka-Helgafell (Iceland) Pantheon (US) |
Release Date: | 1991 |
English Pub Date: | 1994 |
Media Type: | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
Pages: | 259[1] (Hardcover) 272[2] (Paperback) |
Isbn: | 0-679-42891-7 |
Absolution is a 1991 novel by Olaf Olafsson about the mind of a man haunted by the crime he planned half a century earlier.
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.[3]
“Compulsive reading, and the spare, dry language concentrates the suspense…As cold and lucid as a quartz crystal.” – The Independent on Sunday (UK) [4]