“A fable about forbidden love in the first world war…effortlessly readable.” - The Guardian This will become a classic war novel.” - The Bookseller
“Powerful, poignant, and beautifully written. “Extraordinary…The narrative is by turns surprising and tragic in equal measure while its troubling conclusion will stay with readers long after they’ve closed the book.” -Carlo Gébler, author of The Dead Eight For all its spellbinding narrative momentum, The Absolutist is, in the end, a sober meditation on the heartbreak that ensues when people and principles collide.” -Paul Russell, author of The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov “A gripping, superbly plotted novel, filled with surprises that are by turns confounding, disturbing and tremendously moving. “A wonderful, sad, tender book is going to have an enormous impact on everyone who reads it.” -Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn “John Boyne brings a completely fresh eye to the most important stories…He is one of the great craftsmen in contemporary literature.” -Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin “A novel of immeasurable sadness, in a league with Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair…Boyne is very, very good at portraying the destructive power of a painfully kept secret…this is a forbidden love story, a gay love story, but one with a terrible twist.” -John Irving, author of A Prayer for Owen Meany
We suffer in silence, we love in silence, and we regret and learn to live our unlived lives in silence as well.” -André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name
“A moving and deeply felt tribute to a love that dared to speak its name once-or maybe twice-and then forever held its tongue. The Absolutist is a masterful, unforgettable tale of passion, jealousy, heroism, and betrayal set in one of the most gruesome trenches of France during World War I. The intensity of their bond brought Tristan happiness and self-discovery as well as confusion and unbearable pain. As he recounts the horrific details of what to him became a senseless war, he also speaks of his friendship with Will–from their first meeting on the training grounds at Aldershot to their farewell in the trenches of northern France. He can no longer keep a secret and has finally found the courage to unburden himself of it. It is September 1919, and twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Great War.īut the letters are not the real reason for Tristan’s visit. “A moving and deeply felt tribute to a love that dared to speak its name." -André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your NameĪ new edition of the beloved novel most similar thematically to the author’s mega-bestseller The Heart’s Invisible Furies
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