Name: Snow: A Novel (Strafford and Quirke, 1)
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Author: John Banville
ISBN: 9781335013330

portada Snow: A Novel (Strafford and Quirke, 1)

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Physical Book

Author

John Banville

Publisher

Hanover Square Press

Language

English

Pages

336

ISBN13

9781335013330

Snow: A Novel (Strafford and Quirke, 1)

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Synopsis "Snow: A Novel (Strafford and Quirke, 1)"

"One of the very best mysteries of this or any other year." --Globe and Mail "Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format... Superbly rich and sophisticated." --New York Times Book Review Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Strafford--flinty, visibly Protestant and determined to identify the murderer--faces obstruction at every turn, from the heavily accumulating snow to the culture of silence in the tight-knit community he begins to investigate. As he delves further, he learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. And when his own deputy goes missing, Strafford must work to unravel the ever-expanding mystery before the community's secrets, like the snowfall itself, threaten to obliterate everything. Beautifully crafted, darkly evocative and pulsing with suspense, Snow is "the Irish master" (New Yorker) John Banville at his page-turning best.

John Banville

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John William Banville es un novelista irlandés nacido en Wexford en 1945, cuya prosa ha sido descrita como precisa, lírica y profundamente reflexiva. A lo largo de su carrera ha trabajado también como periodista, y bajo el seudónimo Benjamin Black ha escrito novelas policiacas protagonizadas por el patólogo Quirke. Sus historias tienden a explorar temas como la pérdida, la obsesión y la memoria, muchas veces con un tono existencial y filosófico.

Banville ha sido ampliamente premiado: ganó el Premio Booker» en 2005 por su novela The Sea, recibió el Premio Franz Kafka en 2011 y el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras en 2014. Entre sus obras más destacadas están El Mar (The Sea), Ancient Light y la novela corta The Newton Letter, que muestran su dominio de la introspección y de la narrativa reflexiva.

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