The Sacrament

The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter's day, a young student at the school watches the school's headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades later, the child--now a grown man, haunted by the past--calls the nun back to the scene of the crime. Seeking peace and calm in her twilight years at a convent in France, she has no choice to make a trip to Iceland again, a trip that brings her former visit, as well as her years as a young woman in Paris, powerfully and sometimes painfully to life. In Paris, she met an Icelandic girl who she has not seen since, but whose acquaintance changed her life, a relationship she relives all while reckoning with the mystery of August Franz's death and the abuses of power that may have brought it on. In The Sacrament , critically acclaimed novelist Olaf Olafsson looks deeply at the complexity of our past lives and selves; the faulty nature of memory; and the indelible mark left by the joys and traumas of youth. Affecting and beautifully observed, The Sacrament is both propulsively told and poignantly written--tinged with the tragedy of life's regrets but also moved by the possibilities of redemption, a new work from a novelist who consistently surprises and challenges.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Olaf Olafsson
• Edition: Ecco Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780062899873
• ISBN: 978-0-06-289987-3
• Pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Religious, RELIGION: Spirituality, FICTION: Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION: Psychological, RELIGION: Faith