THE BOOK OF EVIDENCE
MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
From the Booker Prize winner of The Sea comes "an astonishing, disturbing little novel that might have been coughed up from hell" The New York Times Book Review about the dark confession of an improbable murderer.
"Ireland's finest contemporary novelist." -The Economist
Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.
Edad recomendada: Adultos.
BANVILLE JOHN
John Banville nació en Wexford, Irlanda, en 1945. Por su novela El mar ganó, en 2005, el Premio Booker. Entre sus otras novelas son igualmente notables Kepler 1981 , Mefisto 1986 , El libro de las pruebas 1989 , Eclipse 2000 , Los infinitos 2009 , Antigua luz 2012 y Las singularidades 2023 . Es conocido también por el seudónimo de Benjamin Black, que usa para publicar novelas policiales. En 2011 recibió el Premio Franz Kafka, y en 2014, el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras. Escribe regularmente en The New York Review of Books.
