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Author:

Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, author.

Title:

The sacrament : a novel / Olaf Olafsson.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Eccoan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

292 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Nuns--Fiction.
Memory--Fiction.
Catholic schools--Iceland--Fiction.
Regret--Fiction.
Iceland--Fiction.
Paris (France)--Fiction.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

9780062899873
0062899872

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1089487828

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