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Ghosts opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island. The stranded castaways make their way towards the refuge of the isle’s reclusive savant; but the big isolated house which is home to Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic assistant, Licht, is also home to another, unnamed presence . . .

Onto this seemingly haunted island, where a strange singing hangs in the air, Banville drops a scrumptious cast of characters – including a murderer – and weaves a tale where the details are clear but the conclusion polymorphous – shifting appearances, transformations and thwarted assumptions make this world of uneasy calm utterly enthralling.

‘As fascinating, complex, stimulating and energetic as any work of art . . . A work which proves Banville as a master, the artist in total control of his craft’ The Times

‘John Banville’s funniest book . . . another triumph by our most outrageously inventive and daring novelist’ The Sunday Independent

‘Makes this astonishingly attractive novelist one of the most important writers now at work in English – a key thinker, in fact, in fiction’ The London Review of Books

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Book details

Book category Books in German Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Full title: Ghosts
• Author: John Banville
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781035076833
• ISBN: 1035076837
• ID: 48111185
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Weight: 186 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 130 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. February 2026

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