Sacrament

<p><strong>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 claims</strong></p><p>A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. 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.</p><p>Two decades later the child--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 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.</p><p>In <em>The Sacrament</em> 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. Affecting and beautifully observed <em>The Sacrament </em>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.</p>