To Calais, In Ordinary Time - Softcover

Meek, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178689677X ISBN 13: 9781786896773

Verlag: Canongate Books, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

'Inventive and original' The Times
'Fans of intelligent historical fiction will be enthralled' Hilary Mantel

Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

Three journeys. One road.

England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. In the other direction comes the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half of the population of Northern Europe.

To Calais, In Ordinary Time is an exploration of love, death and power, against the backdrop of catastrophe.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Meek is the author of six novels including The People's Act of Love which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Award. It has been published in more than thirty countries. Meek's last novel The Heart Broke In was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and he has also written two collections of short stories and a book of non-fiction, Private Island, which won the 2015 Orwell Prize. He is a Contributing Editor to the London Review of Books and writes regularly for the Guardian and New York Times. He lives in London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 178689677X
• ISBN 13: 9781786896773
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
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