John Boyne was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1971. He is the author of nine novels (seven for adults and two for children), including The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, which was made into an award-winning film. The novel also won two Irish Book Awards, was short-listed for the British Book Award, reached the top of the New York Times Best Sellers list, and has sold more than five million copies. His novels are published in forty-five languages. He lives in Dublin. Please visit him at www.johnboyne.com
“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. 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 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
“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 wonderful, sad, tender book [that] is going to have an enormous
impact on everyone who reads it.” —Colm Tóibín, author of
Brooklyn
“A gripping, superbly plotted novel, filled with surprises that are
by turns confounding, disturbing and tremendously moving. 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
“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
“Powerful, poignant, and beautifully written. This will become a
classic war novel.” —The Bookseller
“A fable about forbidden love in the first world war…effortlessly
readable.” —The Guardian
“Political, personal, powerful…a fiercely interrogative novel that
asks not just what it means to be a man but also what it means to
be a human being in the extreme circumstances of war.” —Irish
Times
“A relentlessly tragic yet beautifully crafted novel.” —Publishers
Weekly
“A thought-provoking and surprising page-turner that for some
readers may recall Ian McEwan’s Atonement.” —Library Journal
“Poetic, passionate, and poignant, The Absolutist is about
self-discovery, friendship, and how far bravery can take us.”
—Interview Magazine
“What is most memorable here is the timelessly doomed relationship
between Tristan and Will, marked by tenderness and confusion and
cruelty in the face of their own internalized repression…This is a
wonderfully crafted tragedy that will stay with the reader.” —The
Daily Beast (Hot Read)
“What begins as a slow-building World War I period piece…grows
deeper, more curious, and uneasy as it progresses—and midway
through this sad and beautiful story, you realize you’re in the
hands of a quiet master…a taut and tragic tale of love and war,
with a kick-in-the-gut ending.” —Amazon (Best Books of the
Month)
“A powerful story about love, hate, courage, guilt, and war where
nothing is simple and everything might not be as it seems.” —Shelf
Awareness
“This is a different kind of journey into the darkness of war, told
by a gifted, powerful novelist, and the result is a book with an
often staggering emotional punch.” —Book Page
“An outstanding, thought-provoking look at the passionate choices
we make, and how we react to life-changing situations. Much
recommended for all readers, five full stars out of five.” —Yahoo
(Editor’s pick of the month)
“A slim, tightly wound novel of love and disaster.” —The
Millions
“An unforgettable story that transcends genres.” —Huntington
News
“A riveting look into what drives the relationships we have in
spite of the world around us.” —Seattle Gay News
“This is great modern literature with fantastic artistic appeal and
superb writing, a story of duty, honor, love, high passion, and
integrity.” —Book Reporter
“Writing of this sensitivity and simply verbal beauty is rare.
Boyne is rapidly becoming one of the great writers of the century.”
—Literary Aficionado
“An outstanding read, very highly recommended.” —Historical Novel
Society
“[In] Boyne’s fiction, there’s a sense that people are
fundamentally the sum of their traumas…Boyne’s narrative grip is
strong.” —Literary Review
“For me, the world totally ceased to exist while I was reading The
Absolutist…If you plan on reading just one book this winter, this
should be it.” —Washington Blade
“The Absolutist needs to be read, for society always needs to be
reminded that war and civilization are mutually exclusive, and that
if we still have war, then we’re not yet civilized.” —The Coffin
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