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Book SynopsisJohn Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book,
Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other highly acclaimed books include
Nightspawn,
Birchwood,
Doctor Copernicus (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976),
Kepler (which was awarded the
Guardian Fiction Prize in 1981),
The Newton Letter,
Mefisto,
Ghosts,
Athena,
The Untouchable,
Eclipse,
Shroud and the Man Booker Prize-winning
The Sea. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.
Trade ReviewBanville has excelled himself in a flawlessly flowing prose whose lyricism, patrician irony and aching sense of loss are reminiscent of
Lolita. * Observer *
The Book of Evidence is a major work of fiction in which every suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam within. Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people’s souls. -- Don DeLillo, author of
Underworld,
Cosmopolis and
Mao IIOne of the most important writers now at work in English – a key thinker, in fact, in fiction. * London Review of Books *
Remarkable. . . If all crime novels were like this one, there would no longer be the need for a genre. -- Ruth Rendell, author of the Inspector Wexford series
