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Level Crossing
Angličtina
44 b
Nové
30 dní na vrácení zboží
On a winter crossing of the Atlantic in 1947, a ship becomes a moral laboratory. Aboard the Queen Elizabeth, survivors of war, artists in decline, frauds, killers, widows, and witnesses drift toward England, carrying secrets heavier than their luggage. At the centre of this floating society is Albert Pettibone-an unassuming art dealer, genial, observant, and quietly compromised-whose gift is not innocence, but survival. As stories intersect and crimes echo across generations, Level Crossing unfolds as a darkly ironic meditation on guilt, performance, and the thin line between seeing and acting. Justice flickers, truth slips away, and those most adept at looking harmless endure.Elegant, unsettling, and morally acute, Level Crossing is a post‑war novel in the tradition of Greene and Waugh: a study of how evil persists not through grand villains, but through silence, accommodation, and the comforting illusion of civility.
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