Cover of Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, ISBN 9789349919129
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Absalom, Absalom!

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Paperback · ISBN 9789349919129

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ISBN 9789349919129
Publisher Feel Classics
Publication date October 2025
Language English
Page count 324

A SOUTHERN GOTHIC MASTERPIECE • A harrowing tale of ambition, obsession, and the inescapable grip of the past—Faulkner at his most haunting and profound.
The novel that redefined American modernism and exposed the fractured soul of the South.

“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished.” —William Faulkner

At the heart of Absalom, Absalom! lies Thomas Sutpen, a mysterious man who rises from poverty to build a plantation empire in Mississippi—only to watch it crumble under the weight of secrets, betrayal, and racial taboo. Through the eyes of multiple narrators, including the tormented Quentin Compson, the story unfolds like a shattered mirror: distorted, fragmented, and deeply human.

As legends unravel and truths remain just out of reach, Faulkner leads readers through a tangled web of memory and myth, where the sins of the fathers return to claim the sons, and where the South’s grand narrative is revealed as both tragic and terrifying.

A brilliant, brooding portrait of a doomed dynasty, Absalom, Absalom! is a towering exploration of race, power, and identity in a haunted land. Nearly a century after its publication, it endures as one of Faulkner’s most challenging and unforgettable works—a novel that dares to ask whether history can ever truly be told.