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Chargement... The Professor of Truthpar James Robertson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Best book I've read this year!! I enjoyed this book (and this author) so much and was enthralled from the very first page - so much said, and unsaid, in his words. A terrific read, a great author! ( ) When I first heard about this book I wasn't sure whether I would enjoy it. A novel based so closely upon the Lockerbie bombing and the protracted aftermath sounded rather too harrowing. It is, however, written by James Robertson, author of 'And The Land Lay Bare' (perhaps the definitive novel of Scotland in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries) and the strangely compelling 'Testament of Gideon Mack', so there was never any question about whether I would read it. I am glad I did. The novel is a first person narrative from Dr Alan Tealing, an academic based at an unspecified Scottish university (though I am pretty sure it is meant to be Stirling) whose American wife and young daughter were among the victims of a terrorist atrocity that led to a passenger jet exploding over a town in southern Scotland twenty one years ago. Hence the inescapable associations with Lockerbie. As the novel opens the news of the death in prison of the man convicted of causing the explosion has just been announced. Tealing is devastated. Alone among all the bereaved, he has always been convinced that the conviction, secured largely upon the unsupported testimony of a minicab driver, was unsafe, and, to the consternation of the authorities, he had campaigned publicly for a retrial. Shortly after the announcement is made Tealing is visited by a mysterious American called Niven, who claims to have been part of the secret service team that investigated the cause of the explosion. Niven explains that he is terminally ill and asks for a last interview with Tealing to try to discover why he has remained so adamant in his belief in the prisoner's innocence. Afterwards, as he prepares to leave, Niven passes Tealing a piece of paper with the new name and address of the witness whose evidence proved so pivotal in the trial. The précis above may make the novel sound overpoweringly sombre. Certainly there are very few laughs, but the plot fairly fizzes along. Tealing is an overwhelmingly plausible character and the evident depth of Robertson's own research about Lockerbie is replicated in his character's monomania. This could so easily have fallen into tasteless recapitulation of all the emotive responses to the atrocity, but Robertson pulls it off masterfully. And … there's a cat in it too! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: "[The Professor of Truth] provides the framework for a deeper philosophical treatment of justice and loss and grief, all well served by Robertson's measured, literary prose. Robertson makes a case for the messy complexity of truth." . "Robertson writes brilliantly about the quest for truth and hints at the possibility of personal redemption and transformation.". "Impressively blends the political with the personal, and a healthy dash of the metaphysical, as well. Robertson knows that it's often the pursuit of truth, regardless of the truth itself, by which we should measure the work of a man's life.". "The Professor of Truth moves at the quick pace you'd expect from a thriller, but it's more contemplative and thoughtful. It's a well-rounded novel that will leave you thinking long after the last pages are turned.". "Thought-provoking and engaging, Robertson's novel is a literary thriller with a conscience.". HTML:A literary spellbinder about one man's desperate attempt to deal with grief by unmasking the terrorists responsible for the act that killed his wife and daughter Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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