Absolution (novel)

Absolution
	First edition (Icelandic)
Author	Olaf Olafsson
Original title	Fyrirgefning syndanna
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Publisher	Vaka-Helgafell (Iceland); Pantheon (US)
Publication date	1991
Published in English	1994
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages	259 (Hardcover) ; 272 (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.

Synopsis

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]

Critical reception

“Compulsive reading, and the spare, dry language concentrates the suspense…As cold and lucid as a quartz crystal.” – The Independent on Sunday (UK) ^[4]

References

^ "Absolution (Hardcover)". Amazon.ca.
^ Absolution (Paperback). ISBN 1400030684.
^ "Random House". Retrieved 2011-11-10.
^ "Independent UK". The Independent. London. 1994-05-08. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-11-10.

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[1] "Absolution (Hardcover)". Amazon.ca.

[2] Absolution (Paperback). ISBN 1400030684.

[3] "Random House". Retrieved 2011-11-10.

[4] "Independent UK". The Independent. London. 1994-05-08. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-11-10.

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