The singularities
by John Banville
Freddie Montgomery just got out of prison and is a new man. Under the pseudonym Felix Mordaunt he returns to the old mansion from his childhood, where the family of the late Adam Godley now lives, the great physicist whose theory revolutionized the conception of the universe. Mordaunt joins the constellation formed by the son eternally in the shadow of the famous scientist, his irresistible wife Helen, a stubborn housekeeper, a biographer in love – almost a rival – and a woman from the past who asks Felix for an unexpected and dangerous favor.
With this extraordinary novel that is at once a love story – at the center of which is Helen, perhaps the author’s most unforgettable female character -, a suspense novel, an apocryphal biography and a scientific theory, Banville takes his narrative to new horizons: “I will never be able to to write a book like that again,” he declared. “It’s like all my books rolled into one.”
«I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO WRITE A BOOK LIKE THIS AGAIN. IT’S LIKE ALL MY BOOKS UNITED INTO ONE »
The new novel by the great Irish master, winner of the Prince of Asturias, Man Booker and Franz Kafka awards, and “Nobel close if there is justice” (Rodrigo Fresán): a master class in humor, nostalgia and intelligence
“LeeraBanville is like being in front of an inconceivably talented, witty and intelligent magician.”
The Boston Globe
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