NUNC! - Hardcover

Letts, Quentin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408722844 ISBN 13: 9781408722848

Verlag: Constable, 2025

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Sunday Times bestselling author, Quentin Letts, pens a new novel: a modern twist on one of the greatest (yet underlooked) narratives in Christianity...

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Quentin Letts is political sketch writer for The Times and theatre critic for the Sunday Times. A regular broadcaster on radio and television, he was formerly New York correspondent for The Times, gossip columnist for the Daily Telegraph and parliamentary sketch writer for the Daily Mail. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain. His hobbies are gossip, hymn-singing and cricket. He lives in rural Herefordshire.

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'Simeon was having a conversation in front of the feather. Well, conversation might be putting it too strongly. It was more a monologue. God was not answering back. There was nothing unusual in that.'

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Sunday Times bestselling author, Quentin Letts, pens a modern twist on one of the greatest (yet under-looked) narratives in Christianity.

Jerusalem is ruled by rosemary-scented King Herod. By the bougainvillea in Deuteronomy Square, Reuben's tea stall keeps customers sweet with lemon koloochehs. Onesimus the green-grocer piles his polished pears and pineapples in ziggurats, blind harpist Tabitha captivates bachelor Pharisees, Roman sentries doze; and the widower Simeon, beset by gout and befriended by a dog called Shlomo, watches the passing promenade. By day he dodges bossy superintendent Kedar. By starlit night he contemplates lost loves and the visits of a bad-tempered angel.

Quentin Letts's delightful tales bring first-century Jerusalem to quirky life and show how the prophet Simeon, whose Nunc Dimittis became one of the great canticles of Christendom, can help an ailing twenty-first-century Englishman come to terms with his fate.

Nunc! is a gracious yet beautifully navigated meditation on life, love and death.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Constable
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1408722844
• ISBN 13: 9781408722848
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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