by John Banville · Minerva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749390440
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«The Book of Evidence» is the mystery and crime novel by John Banville, published by Minerva in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Freddie Montgomery, a cultured man living in exile in the Mediterranean, returns to Ireland when his wife and daughter are held over a debt. In his confession from prison, he reconstructs the theft of a small Dutch portrait and the murder he commits when discovered, examining his own violence with chilling lucidity.
First part of John Banville's «Frames» trilogy. It won the Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989.
For readers of literary fiction with an interest in criminal introspection and contemporary Irish literature.
William John Banville is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. A former member of Aosdána, he voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer.
