num_pages: 407
description: Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems.When a letter arrives out of the blue, threatening to unveil his secrets – and carefully concealed identity – Vander travels to Turin to meet its author. There, muddled by age and alcohol, unable always to distinguish fact from fiction, Vander comes face to face with the woman who has the knowledge to unmask him, Cass Cleave. However, her sense of reality is as unreliable as his, and the two are quickly drawn together, their relationship dark, disturbed and doomed to disaster from its very start.
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