{"product_id":"absolution-9781594486579","title":"Absolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Patrick Flanery\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold and exciting literary novel set in South Africa that contemplates the elusive line between truth and self-perception.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmbitious and assured, \u003ci\u003eAbsolution \u003c\/i\u003epropels the reader to the final page in a drive to discover the secrets and truths at its core. How or why did a young antiapartheid activist disappear twenty years earlier? How does that event link the present-day characters? And how does it explain the choices they have made or the lies they may tell themselves? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbsolution \u003c\/i\u003eis a big-idea novel about the pitfalls of memory, the ramifications of censorship, and the ways we are silently complicit in the problems around us. It's also a devastating, intimate, and stunningly woven story. Told in shifting perspectives, it centers on the mysterious character of Clare Wald, a controversial South African writer of great fame, haunted by the memories of a sister she fears she betrayed to her death and a daughter she fears she abandoned. Clare comes to learn that in this conflict the dead do not stay buried, and the missing return in other forms--such as the child witness of her daughter's last days who has reappeared twenty years later as Clare's official biographer, prompting an unraveling of history and a search for forgiveness. Part literary thriller, part meditation on the responsibility of the individual under totalitarianism, this is a masterpiece of rich, complicated characters and narration that captures the reader and does not let go.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45411661545623,"sku":"9781594486579","price":1942.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781594486579.webp?v=1767444167","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/absolution-9781594486579","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}