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Overview
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Book of Evidence and Ghosts comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. "A strange and dreamlike book . . . Banville has a breathtaking style."—Boston Globe.
We enter the story via the fevered mind of the narrator--a man with a hidden past who has been lured into a scheme to authenticate a set of suspect paintings. As if from the paintings themselves, a mysterious woman emerges in his life. In a mesmerizing narrative, he retraces his unwitting steps through the menacing maze of his obsessions--art and the woman he calls "A."
Synopsis
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Book of Evidence and Ghosts comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. "A strange and dreamlike book . . . Banville has a breathtaking style."—Boston Globe.
Publishers Weekly
Irish novelist Banville offers a literary thriller in which his guilt-plagued narrator is drawn into both an art theft and a passionate affair with a mysterious woman. (June)