Alibi

Resumen del libro

It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when he falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish woman scarred by her devastating experiences during World War II, he is forced to confront another Venice, a city still at war with itself, haunted by atrocities it would rather forget. Everyone, including his mother's suave new Venetian suitor, has been compromised by the occupation, and Adam finds himself at the center of a web of deception, intrigue, and unexpected moral dilemmas. When is murder acceptable? What are the limits of guilt? How much is someone willing to pay for a perfect alibi?

Biografía del autor

Joseph Kanon (Pennsylvania, 1946) es autor de cinco novelas: Los álamos, que ganó el Premio Edgar a la mejor obra primeriza; El buen alemán (publicada en RBA), que se convirtió en una película protagonizada por George Clooney y Cate Blanchett; The Prodigal spy y Alibi, con las que otorgaron a Kanon con el premio Hammett de la International Association of Crime Writers; y Estambul. También ha recibido el Anne Frank Human Writers Award por sus escritos acerca de las secuelas del Holocausto. Antes de convertirse en escritor a tiempo completo, trabajó como directivo de una empresa editorial. Vive en Nueva York con su mujer, la agente literaria Robin Straus, con la que tiene dos hijos.