Pilgrims (eBook)

Matthew Kneale (Autor)

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2020 | Main
352 Seiten
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-78649-238-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

'An enthralling and wonderfully vivid novel from a master storyteller' Joseph O'Connor
'Kneale's medieval world is animated with a refreshing lightness of touch' Sunday Telegraph
1289. A rich farmer fears he'll go to hell for cheating his neighbours. His wife wants pilgrim badges to sew into her hat and show off at church. A poor, ragged villager is convinced his beloved cat is suffering in the fires of purgatory and must be rescued. A mother believes her son's dangerous illness is punishment for her own adultery and seeks forgiveness so he may be cured. A landlord is in trouble with the church after he punched an abbot on the nose. A sexually driven noblewoman seeks a divorce so she can marry her new young beau.
These are among a ragtag band of pilgrims that sets off on the tough and dangerous journey from England to Rome, where they hope all their troubles and their prayers will be answered. Some in the group, however, have their own secret reasons for going. Others, while they might aspire to piety, succumb all too often to the sins of the flesh.
A riveting, sweeping novel of medieval society and historic Englishness, Pilgrims illuminates the fallibility of humans, the absurdities and consolations of belief, and the very real violence at the heart of religious fervour.

Autor

Matthew Kneale is the author of seven novels and two works of non-fiction. His debut novel, Whore Banquets, won the Somerset Maugham Award, Sweet Thames won John Llewellyn Rhys, and English Passengers, shortlisted for the Man Booker and Miles Franklin, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 2000. His latest non-fiction book, Rome: A History in Seven Sackings, was a Waterstones Book of the Month. For the last two decades he has lived in Rome with his wife and two children.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: abbot • Canterbury Tales • Chaucer • Christianity • Church • company of liars • England • Hilary Mantel • Historical • historical fiction • journey • karen maitland • Ken Follett • martin archer • Medieval • Medieval England • medieval fiction • Middle Ages • Name of the Rose • Pilgrimage • Pillars of the Earth • Religion • Rome • Saint • sweet thames • Umberto Eco • Village
• ISBN-10: 1-78649-238-5 / 1786492385
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78649-238-8 / 9781786492388