{"product_id":"absolution-isbn-9781400030682","title":"Absolution","description":"In his spellbinding first novel, acclaimed Icelandic author Olaf Olafsson takes us inside the mind of a man haunted by the crime he willed half a century earlier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExpatriate businessman Peter Peterson left behind the trappings of a seemingly charmed life: a vast fortune, two children, and a stately Park Avenue address. But he also left behind another legacy: a secret from long ago that shadowed his accomplishments and estranged him from his loved ones—a crime of passion, committed in the throes of unrequited love, that became a lifetime’s burden. Yet when Peter is forced to confront the consequences of his actions, an unexpected turn of events shakes the very foundation of his past. Spanning a boyhood in Iceland to the Nazi occupation of Denmark to modern-day Manhattan, \u003cb\u003eAbsolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecalls up Dostoevsky and Ibsen as it masterfully plumbs the darkest corners of a sinister mind and a wounded heart.“Brilliant . . . a tour de force.” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Powerfully accomplished. . . . \u003cb\u003eAbsolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003esets long reverberations tolling in the reader’s mind.” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A clever, unexpectedly enjoyable novel of crime and punishment.” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fascinating, wintry tale of a frozen heart.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A literary triumph. . . . The book works extremely well both as a psychological thriller and as a character study.” –\u003ci\u003eThe European\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A solemn, intellectually challenging work.” –\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The first book in English by this top-notch Nordic novelist, who may become that true rarity, an Icelandic Nobel Prize winner.” –\u003ci\u003eForbes Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Surprisingly effective. . . . This story of crime and punishment is an impressive novel. . . . A modest, but not unworthy, offspring of Dostoevsky’s towering predecessor.” –\u003ci\u003e The Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Compulsive reading, and the spare, dry language concentrates the suspense. . . . As cold and lucid as a quartz crystal.” –\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Spellbinding. . . . Formidably written.” –\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The novel whose aftertaste has lingered longest this year is \u003cb\u003eAbsolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e. . . Its deep humanity and elegiac tone made it oddly exhilarating. . . . A superlative example of the genre, which reverberates in the reader’s mind because of the craftsmanship and integrity which Olafsson has brought to the story.” –\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] sophisticated novel . . . written in clear, sparse prose.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Olafsson’s debut as a writer in English has more than curiosity value: this is a fine novel.” –\u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Icelander Olafsson’s style has the linear austerity and emotionally supercharged restraint that seems a Nordic hallmark. . . . The honesty of this first-person account of a traumatised conscience holds the attention. The slow-burning fuse of the narrator’s guilt . . . smoulders through skilled writing and narrative integrity.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Funny, sad and utterly enjoyable.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003eOlaf Olafsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1962 and studied physics as a Wien Scholar at Brandeis University. He is the author of two other novels, \u003cb\u003eThe Journey Home\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eWalking Into the Night\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e His work has been translated into fourteen languages. Olafsson lives in New York with his wife and two sons.","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305524187365,"sku":"NP9781400030682","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781400030682.jpg?v=1767721005","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/absolution-isbn-9781400030682","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}