description: Axel Vander, celebrated academic and man of culture, is spending his twilight years on the west coast of America. For decades he has lived with the knowledge of a tragedy of which he was both perpetrator and victim.
language: English
title: Shroud
titlecomplete: Shroud
characters: Axel Vander, Cass Cleave
genres: Fiction, Ireland, European Literature, Italy, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Irish Literature, 21st Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1425
series: The Cleave Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Premio Elba
publisher: Picador