Shroud

Contemporary

Author: John Banville

Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems.,,When a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil his secrets – and carefully concealed identity – Vander travels to Turin to meet its author. There, muddled by age and alcohol, unable always to distinguish fact from fiction, Vander comes face to face with the woman who has the….Read More

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