Description
Sentenced to life for murder, Felix Mordaunt is released and returns to the ramshackle Irish country of his youth, only to find his childhood home now occupied by Adam and Helen Godley. As he revisits old streets and half-remembered moments, the novel unfolds as a layered inquiry into the enigmatic past he can’t quite outrun—where nostalgia shades into dread and every recollection feels newly charged. With Banville’s signature elegance and intelligence, the story braids themes of guilt and identity, the instability of memory, and the boundary between life and death, echoing ideas from quantum theory about how outcomes can hinge on what we cannot fully know. Playful yet haunting, this is a stylish, multi-voiced meditation on what it means to be singular—both as a person and as a possibility.
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hardcover
Knopf
Published Oct 18, 2022
320 pages
ISBN: 9780525655176
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First Published
2022
Language
eng
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