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Ghosts is a 1993 novel by John Banville. It was his first novel since 1989's The Book of Evidence, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The second in what Banville described as a "triptych", to make "an investigation of the way in which the imagination works." [1]
1 de ene. de 2001 · Ghosts. John Banville. 3.57. 813 ratings110 reviews. An unnamed murderer has served his time in prison, then comes to live on a sparsely populated island with the enigmatic Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic companion, Licht. A sort of uneasy calm is operating in this world when a party of castaways arrives, with disquieting results.
About Ghosts. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a brilliantly haunting novel that forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence.
Licht rejects most people. The others lightly touch but everything is vague. Indeed, as Banville points out, we are all just scrabbling for an existence, for a place on this planet, stranded on a lonely island, with little hope for anything more tangible and substantial. Only the lambent moon shows us anything.
8 de nov. de 1994 · by John Banville (Author) 4.1 102 ratings. See all formats and editions. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a brilliantly haunting novel that forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence.
26 de dic. de 1993 · To the Editor: Wendy Lesser, in her review of "Ghosts," by John Banville (Nov. 28), notes in passing that the book's narrator turns out to be the somehow updated murderer-protagonist of...
5 de mar. de 2010 · Ghosts. John Banville. Synopsis. ‘A beautiful, beguiling book full of resonances that continue to sound long after you’ve turned the final page. Its imagining is magical, its execution dazzlingly skilful.’. Sunday Tribune. Ghosts opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island.
