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As haunting and enigmatic as a thriller, Shreve?s tale of a near future evolves into a glorious meditation on love, fear, and forgiveness
Viking
May 2006
256 pages
ISBN: 0670037583
Hardcover
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Fiction | Thriller
In the Washington, D.C., of a near future, a city of floods
and frequent terrorist bombings, the tightly knit Frayn
family has carved out its own comfortable, if eccentric,
existence. Then, in the moment it takes Claire Frayn to dig
into her book bag for her umbrella, her brother Steven is
shot down next to her on the library steps. His murder hits the family like a hurricane. Set adrift,
Claire easily falls under the influence of Victor Duarte, an
enigmatic stranger who claims to know her brother�s killer.
But as she corresponds with the supposed criminal
mastermind, a composer at a conservatory in Michigan, she
finds herself increasingly apprehensive about Victor and his
plans for revenge, while she is ever more drawn to the musician. Plotted like a thriller with a startling love story at its
center, this is a pitch-perfect and painful rendering of the
way a family grieves and of the way public violence seeps
into every part of our lives. Much like Ian McEwan�s
Saturday, A Student of Living Things takes on the
moral, political, and philosophical questions of our time
with a very intimate story about the futility of revenge and
the sheer miracle of forgiveness.
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