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Winner of the Spear's First Best Book Award, 2012
Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, 2012
Longlisted for the Guardian Book Award, 2012
Longlisted for the Green Carnation Prize, 2012
Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2014
In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned to South Africa to embark upon a project that will establish his reputation - he is to write Clare's biography. But how honest is she prepared to be? Was she complicit in crimes lurking in South Africa's past; is she an accomplice or a victim? Are her crimes against her family real or imagined? In the stories she weaves and the truth just below the surface of her shimmering prose, lie Sam's own ghosts.
Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, 2012
Longlisted for the Guardian Book Award, 2012
Longlisted for the Green Carnation Prize, 2012
Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2014
In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned to South Africa to embark upon a project that will establish his reputation - he is to write Clare's biography. But how honest is she prepared to be? Was she complicit in crimes lurking in South Africa's past; is she an accomplice or a victim? Are her crimes against her family real or imagined? In the stories she weaves and the truth just below the surface of her shimmering prose, lie Sam's own ghosts.
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Reviews
"Patrick Flanery is an exceptionally gifted novelist, and he is just getting started"
New Yorker
"Flanery's portrayal of South Africa is explosively powerful... An exceptionally intelligent, multi-layered novel encompassing politics, history, a gripping storyline and complex characters. It has absorbing depictions of grief, guilt, parenthood and sibling rivalry, and is beautifully written... Absolution is an exceptional book."
Independent
"A taut literary thriller set in South Africa... A very clever, beautifully written book where the reader is constantly adjusting to nothing being as it seems."
Daily Mail
"Absolution is a bold calling card from a major new writer"
Independent on Sunday, 'Books of the Year'