| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
292 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
A young nun is sent by the Vatican to explore allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter's day, a student at the school witnesses the school's headmaster, Father August Frans, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades later, the young student, 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 but to make a trip to Iceland again, a trip which brings her former visit to Iceland, and her years as a young woman in Paris, powerfully and sometimes painfully to life. During her time in Paris, she had met an Icelandic girl whom she has not seen since, but whose acquaintance changed her life, a relationship she relives all while reckoning with the mystery of August Frans' death and the abuses of power which may have caused it. |
| Subject(S) |
Nuns -- Fiction.
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Clergy -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
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Memory -- Fiction.
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Catholic schools -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Fiction.
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Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
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Iceland -- Fiction.
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Paris (France) -- Fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780062899873 (hardcover) |
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