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Ghosts

John Banville

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#2767 of 8,085 books · #870 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award (1996).

Ghosts opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island. The stranded castaways make their way towards the refuge of the isle's reclusive savant; but the big isolated house which is home to Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic assistant, Licht, is also home to another, unnamed presence. Onto this seemingly haunted island, where a strange singing hangs in the air, John Banville drops a scrumptious cast of characters – including a murderer – and weaves a tale where the details are clear but the conclusion polymorphous – shifting appearances, transformations and thwarted assumptions make this world of uneasy calm utterly enthralling.

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Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9780330523752
Topics
Isolation and identityArt and perceptionMurder and guilt

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