Doug Dosdall's Reviews > Absolution

A very complex, many layered book that will leave me thinking for a while. It certainly evokes a very specific time and place in white South Africa (because black characters are basically absent, which is disturbing but part of the profile of this place the author draws where even the liberal anti-apartheid characters live wholly separate lives). The multiple narratives, each with overlapping but often contradictory truths does not make this an easy book. Nor does the dark subject matter. Truth is a messy matter as the truth and reconciliation hearings found out and this book illuminates that.