Book Review #34
The Forgiven
by Lawrence Osborne
Paul Bowles meets Evelyn Waugh (so to speak) in this dark and sinister, satirical and sardonic tale involving a tragic automobile accident on a desolate road in Morocco. The story is told from multiple points of view, exploring themes of class differences, morality, guilt, forgiveness and retribution. Osborne, a travel writer, creates descriptive passages that capture this foreign and forbidding environment, while delving into the psyches and mores of the jaded and hedonistic Europeans and the pious and suspicious natives. The novel is permeated with a sense of dread, ending with a final act of violence that is both surprising and inevitable.
by Lawrence Osborne
Paul Bowles meets Evelyn Waugh (so to speak) in this dark and sinister, satirical and sardonic tale involving a tragic automobile accident on a desolate road in Morocco. The story is told from multiple points of view, exploring themes of class differences, morality, guilt, forgiveness and retribution. Osborne, a travel writer, creates descriptive passages that capture this foreign and forbidding environment, while delving into the psyches and mores of the jaded and hedonistic Europeans and the pious and suspicious natives. The novel is permeated with a sense of dread, ending with a final act of violence that is both surprising and inevitable.
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