Absolution by Patrick Flanery: review - Telegraph.
Set in present-day South Africa, this tense and unsettling novel opens with the first meeting of Sam, a young writer, and Clare, an acclaimed author whose biography Sam has been hired to write.
Absolution is 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.
Patrick Flanery’s debut novel, Absolution, follows two main characters, world-renowned author Clare Wald, and her biographer, Sam Leroux. The novel takes place in South Africa around 1994, reflecting on the country’s deeply rooted racism, and Clare’s own guilt about her involvement, or lack thereof, in the nation’s recently acquired racial equity. As Clare reveals her own secrets, Sam.
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Book Review - Absolution by Patrick Flanery Most of us have strong views about South Africa. Most of us know what South Africa under apartheid was like, if not firsthand, then from news reports, magazines, books, or other people. In Patrick Flanery’s wonderful debut novel, Absolution, set in the years before and after South Africa’s first free election in 1994, one character who knows the.
Clare Wald is a famous South African author, a virtual recluse who spends her days dwelling on her role in the death of her sister and regrets concerning her daughter, who long ago went missing.
Absolution?is 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.