The Leper's Companions - Hardcover

Blackburn, Julia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 022405127X ISBN 13: 9780224051279

Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1999

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Physical description; 216 p. ; 22 cm. Notes; SIGNED by the author. NOT price-clipped. First edition and first printing. Summary; One morning in 1410, two men from an East-Coast fishing village find a mermaid washed up on the sand. This discovery starts a chain of events that leads four of our villages-the priest, the shoemaker's wife, the fisherman's daughter and the leper-on a pilgrimage: across the North Sea, to Venice and then along the Mediterranean coast to the Holy Land. With the magical imagination that has illumiated her previous books, Julia Blackburn travels with her pilgrims. At first she follows from Distance, but gradually she pulls closer until the five centuries between their time and ours dissolve and the author has entered their world. A spellbinding novel by one of the most original writers currently at work, The Leper's Companions is an extraordinary evocation of the medieval world-a book about birth and death, about destiny, about the courage to let go without the certainty of surviving, to journey with no certainty of return. Subjects; Pilgrims and pilgrimages - Fiction. England - Social life and customs - (1066-1485) - Fiction. Historical fiction ; Modern fiction. Fiction / Historical. Fiction / General.

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One morning in 1410, two men from an East-Coast fishing village find a mermaid washed up on the sand. This discovery starts a chain of events that leads four of our villages-the priest, the shoemaker's wife, the fisherman's daughter and the leper-on a pilgrimage: across the North Sea, to Venice and then along the Mediterranean coast to the Holy Land. With the magical imagination that has illumiated her previous books, Julia Blackburn travels with her pilgrims. At first she follows from Distance, but gradually she pulls closer until the five centuries between their time and ours dissolve and the author has entered their world. A spellbinding novel by one of the most original writers currently at work, The Leper's Companions is an extraordinary evocation of the medieval world-a book about birth and death, about destiny, about the courage to let go without the certainty of surviving, to journey with no certainty of return.

Biografía del autor:

Julia Blackburn is the author of Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones/Esquire Non Fiction Award, and The Book of Colour, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in Suffolk.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 022405127X
• ISBN 13: 9780224051279
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224