
2012 Longlist
The Convent
ABOUT
THE BOOK
The convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in an uninhabited part of the Spanish sierra. Its inhabitants are devoted to God, to solitude and silence; six women cut off from the world they’ve chosen to leave behind. Everything changes on the day that Mother Superior Maria Ines discovers a suitcase punctured with air-holes at the entrance to the retreat. Soon she is to find the box and its contents are to have consequences beyond her imagining, and that even in her carefully protected sanctuary she is unable to keep the world, or her past, at bay. (From Publisher)
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
A novel that plays on ideas about love, respectability and duty. The writing is beguiling and intriguing and invites the reader’s full attention.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Country
Greece
Original Language
English
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
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