The sacrament : a novel / Olaf Olafsson.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Icelandic Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: 292 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0062899872
- 9780062899873
- 839/.6934 23
- PT7511.O439 S3513 2019
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Harrison Memorial Library FICTION | Adult Fiction | OLAFSS O (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31624004278370 |
"The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims. A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter's day, a young student at the school watches the school's headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades later, the child-now a grown man, haunted by the past - calls the nun back to the scene of the crime. Seeking peace and calm in her twilight years at a convent in France, she has no choice to make a trip to Iceland again, a trip that brings her former visit, as well as her years as a young woman in Paris, powerfully and sometimes painfully to life. In Paris, she met an Icelandic girl who she has not seen since, but whose acquaintance changed her life, a relationship she relives all while reckoning with the mystery of August Franz's death and the abuses of power that may have brought it on." --Publisher description.
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