Издания и произведения

‘Sleek, beautiful, breathtakingly cunning prose’ Sunday Times Morrow – a clerkish, middle-aged type encumbered with a chain-smoking dying aunt and a considerable talent for wallowing – is at a loose end when, on two separate occasions, he is beckoned up the stairs of an empty Dublin house. The first is an offer of dubious work, and Morrow soon becomes caught up in a conspiracy to authenticate a series of fake paintings. The second, possibly even odder, is an offer of a love – of a sort. Written in typically luminous prose and featuring a rich cast of characters, Athena is a paean to art, painting, and love, in all its mercurial…

Guilt-plagued art historian Morrow, our narrator, is at a loose end when, separately, two people beckon him up the stairs of an empty and decrepit Dublin house. One offers work of a dubious kind; the other offers a sort of love. A novel full of the delicious sense of impending menace, Banvilles sleek, beautiful, breathtakingly cunning prose will leave the reader longing for more from this consummately skilled novelist.

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Это - постмодернистский детектив. Но - детектив необычный. Детектив, в котором не обязательно знать, кто и зачем совершил преступление. Но такое вы, конечно же, уже читали... Детектив, в котором важны мельчайшие, тончайшие нюансы каждого эпизода.