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The sacrament : a novel

âOlafur Jâohann âOlafsson, author

Overview

\"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.

• Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
• Subject: Nuns Fiction. / Memory Fiction. / Catholic schools Iceland Fiction. / Regret Fiction. / FICTION / Literary. / FICTION / Psychological. / FICTION / Religious. / Iceland Fiction. / Paris (France) Fiction.
• ISBN: 0062899872, 9780062899873

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PT7511.O439 S3513 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE