Description
In a quiet Dublin neighborhood, Miss Gomez—recently drawn into the local church and still haunted by her Jamaican past—finds herself compelled to speak of an approaching sex crime on Crow Street. When her warning is met with skepticism and then silence, the disappearance of young Prudence turns her uneasy prophecy into something far more immediate and terrifying. As the community scrambles to make sense of what they have seen and what they have refused to believe, the novel explores faith and fatalism, the weight of memory, and the moral failures that can hide behind respectability. With William Trevor’s characteristic precision and compassion, the story unfolds as a tense, human drama about how truth arrives too late—and what it costs to look away.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2015
278 pages
ISBN: 9780241969342
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First Published
1971
Language
eng
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