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ABSOLUTION - ALICE MCDERMOTT KARTONIERT (TB)

'Absolution is one of the finest contemporary novels I've read. It is a moral masterpiece.' ANN
PATCHETT 'Her writing has a luminous kind of clarity  a grace and scope that fills me with
wonder' RACHEL JOYCE 'Damning and dazzling  this is the story of a Vietnam we never got in
history class' OPRAH DAILY You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women  I mean. The
wives. 1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed  married to a rising attorney working for US Navy
intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three  a beauty and a
bully. The two women form a wary alliance as they struggle to balance the pressure to be
respectable wives for their ambitious husbands  with their own dubious impulses to do good for
the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later  Charlene's daughter  spurred by an encounter with an
aging Vietnam veteran  reaches out to Tricia. Together  they look back at their time in Saigon
discovering how their lives as women on the periphery - of politics  of history  of war  of
their husbands' convictions - have been shaped and burdened by the unintended consequences of
America's tragic interference in Southeast Asia. Exploring the disaster of the Vietnam War
through the lives built by American wives in 1960s Saigon  this is a virtuosic novel about
folly and grace  obligation  sacrifice and the quest for absolution in a broken world.

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