The Illuminations

"Both a howl against the war in Afghanistan . . . and a multilayered, deeply felt tale of family, loss, memory, art, loyalty, secrecy and forgiveness." —The New York Times Book Review
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Anne Quirk's life is built on stories—the lies she was told by the man she loved and the fictions she told herself to survive. Nobody remembers Anne now, but in her youth she was an artistic pioneer, a creator of groundbreaking documentary photographs. Her beloved grandson Lu...