Kitāb-i Shavāhid: Persiska (Farsi) 1401

"The Book of Evidence" is a novel written by John Banville, which was published in 1989. Many of the characters from The Evidence appear in the 1993 sequel Ghosts. The book is told by Freddie Montgomery, a 38-year-old scientist who murders a servant girl while trying to steal a painting from a neighbor. Freddie is an aimless drifter, and although he is a perceptive observer of himself and his surroundings, he is largely amoral. Freddie Montgomery is an unreliable narrator who tells the story of his life and the events leading up to his arrest for the murder of a servant girl in one of Ireland's "big houses". Freddy, an educated but good-natured Anglo-Irish scientist who has lived abroad for years, returns to his ancestral home in search of money after encountering a gangster in the Mediterranean. Shocked to discover his mother has sold the family's collection of paintings, Fred tries to recover them. This leads to a series of tragic events that lead to the murder of a servant by someone while stealing a painting. On the run, an influential man hides out at the home of his old family friend Charlie before being captured and interrogated. The novel ends when Freddie sits in prison and has his first feelings of regret over the girl's death, while at the same time doubting the veracity of what he has told. Throughout his verbose narrative, before admitting in one of the later chapters that he has a dictionary by his side in his cell, the narrator sporadically inserts complex and obscure words and extracts from them gems that make his prose adorns.