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An Instance of the Fingerpost

Iain Pears

704 pages

About this book

This novel is centred on a suspicious death, that of Robert Grove, fellow of New College. Four witnesses each give their own account of the proceedings, but only one of them is telling the truth.

Themes
MysteriousThought-ProvokingDark & BroodingInvestigativeThe unreliability of truthThe power of historical interpretationThe complexity of human motivesThe tension between faith and reason
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