But Luca's mother, undeterred, is devising her own revenge on the occupiers. In the heart of their village, their mothers have also found themselves vulnerable to the encroaching Nazis. As the violent Nazi occupation intensifies, Luca and Sarah fear for more than their own lives. While risking his life to free his country, Luca is also struggling to protect Sarah, his Jewish lover who's hiding in a mountain cabin. Luca Benedetto has joined the partisans in their fight against the German troops ravaging the shores of his town on Lake Como. Affecting and beautifully observed, The Sacrament is both propulsively told and poignantly written-tinged with the tragedy of life’s regrets but also moved by the possibilities of redemption, a new work from a novelist who consistently surprises and challenges.Ī harrowing historical novel of the extraordinary acts of ordinary people in Nazi-occupied Italy. In 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 mark left by the joys and traumas of youth. Seeking peace and calm in her twilight years at a convent in France, she has no choice to make a trip to Iceland again, a trip that brings her former visit, as well as her years as a young woman in Paris, powerfully and sometimes painfully to life. In Paris, she met an Icelandic girl who she has not seen since, but whose acquaintance changed her life, a relationship she relives all while reckoning with the mystery of August Franz’s death and the abuses of power that may have brought it on. Two decades later, the child-now a grown man, haunted by the past-calls the nun back to the scene of the crime. During her time there, on a gray winter’s day, a young student at the school watches the school’s headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claimsĪ young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland.
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