{"product_id":"the-book-of-evidence-9780375725234","title":"The Book of Evidence","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eMAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - From the Booker Prize winner of \u003ci\u003eThe Sea \u003c\/i\u003ecomes \u003c\/b\u003e\"an astonishing, disturbing little novel that might have been coughed up from hell\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review) \u003c\/i\u003eabout the dark confession of an improbable murderer. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ireland's finest contemporary novelist.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Banville\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He has been the recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1976), the Guardian Fiction Prize (1981), the Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award (1989), and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction (1997). He has been both shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1989) and awarded the Man Booker Prize (2005) as well as nominated for the Man Booker International Prize (2007). Other awards include the Franz Kafka Prize (2011), the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2013), and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2014). He lives in Dublin.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523558084882,"sku":"9780375725234","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0d8be47b-9530-41e7-b614-1041bdc03570.jpg?v=1731152158","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-book-of-evidence-9780375725234","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}