02304cam a2200313 4500 607549070 TxAuBib 20191209120000.0 190923s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2019028916 9780062899873 HRD 26.99 0062899872 HRD 26.99 (OCoLC)1089487828 NjBwBT eng NjBwBT rda TxAuBib eng ice Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, author. Sakramentið English. The sacrament : a novel / Olaf Olafsson. New York, New York : Ecco Press, 2019. 292 pages. A young nun is sent by the Vatican to explore allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a winter's day, a student at the school witnesses the school's headmaster, Father August Frans, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades later, the young student - now a grown man haunted by the past - calls the nun back to the scene of the crime. Seeking peace and calm in her twilight years at a convent in France, she has no choice but to make a trip to Iceland again - a trip that brings her former visit to Iceland, as well as her years as a young woman in Paris, powerfully and sometimes painfully to life. During her time in Paris, she had met an Icelandic girl whom she has not seen since, but whose acquaintance changed her life - a relationship she relives all while reckoning with the mystery of August Fran's death and the abuses of power that may have brought it on. n The Sacrament, critically acclaimed novelist Olaf Olafsson looks deeply at the complexity of our past lives and selves, the faulty nature of memory, and the indelible marks left by the joys and traumas of youth. Affecting and beautifully observed, The Sacrament is both suspenseful and poignantly written - tinged with the tragedy of life's regrets and the possibilities of redemption, a new work from a novelist who consistently surprises and challenges. 20191209. Nuns Fiction. Memory Fiction. Catholic schools Iceland Fiction. Iceland Fiction. Paris (France) Fiction. TXMIT