THE ILLUMINATIONS

How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forg et it? The Illuminations, Andrew O'Hagan's fifth novel, is a beautiful, deeply charged story about love and memory, about modern war and the complications of fact.Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her belove d grandso...[Llegir més]