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S'està carregant… Absolution (1991)de Olaf Olafsson
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Another masterful story by Iceland's justifiably most-famous author. It is no wonder that Olafsson's works have been translated into 14 languages. He writes about characters that are complex, believable, vulnerable yet strong, fatally flawed. His plot twists and flashbacks are handled with precision and suspense. This story travels from Iceland to Denmark to Manhattan. As it unfolds you discover the many-layered secrets of a wealthy man who has had everything--and has lost everything. Or has he? Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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'You have heard stories, many stories, true and fictitious, about everything under the sun - everything except my little crime. Nobody except me knows about that.' Peter Peterson is wracked with nightmares of the past. Now a dying man leading a degenerate and shadowy life in New York, estranged from his family, he confesses everything, from his boyhood in Reykjavik to his escape from Nazi-occupied Denmark - and, of course, the 'little crime' that destroyed his life. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)839.6934Literature German literature and literatures of related languages Other Germanic literatures Old Norse, Old Icelandic, Icelandic, Faroese literatures Modern West Scandinavian; Modern Icelandic Modern Icelandic fiction 1900-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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“My sins will not be forgiven; I do not ask forgiveness and forgive nothing myself. I have nothing to lose; no one can take anything from me which has not already slipped my grasp, All is vanity…”
You, the potential reader, may wonder why one would read, or continue in a book where the protagonist is so awful, and I certainly asked myself the same, several times; but there is something terribly compelling about this story. Was he always this repellant, emotionally wounded person? Peter’s tale takes us back to his childhood in Iceland, his years as a young man in German-occupied Denmark, and finally to his adult years in Manhattan. What has he done? Will he face it? And can there be absolution as the title might suggest?
Olafsson tells compelling character-driven stories with uncomplicated themes. His characters are intimately-written, humans with a capital “H”. With this novel, Olafsson’s first, I have now read all of his current literary oeuvre (8 books) and will need to wait until later this year for his next book. ( )