The Harvest of Chronos

Mojca Kumerdej

ISBN 10: 1908236337 / ISBN 13: 9781908236333

Verlag: Istros Books Nov 2017, 2017

Neuware - An epic, homourous and quite unique historical novel which looks at Central Europe in the 16th century - a territory plagued by ceaseless battles for supremacy between the Protestant political elite and the ruling Catholic Habsburg Monarchy, as well as the ongoing battle between the sexes. In Kumerdej''s wonderful saga, history and fiction intertwine in wavelike fashion, producing a colourful portrait of the Renaissance; permeated by humanist attempts to resurrect antiquity through art, new scientific findings, and spirited philosophical and theological debates. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781908236333

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An epic, humorous and unique historical novel of Central Europe in the 16th century&;a territory plagued by ceaseless battles for supremacy between the Protestant political elite and the ruling Catholic Habsburg Monarchy, as well as the ongoing battle between the sexes. History and fiction intertwine in wavelike fashion, producing a colorful portrait of the Renaissance; permeated by humanist attempts to resurrect antiquity through art, new scientific findings, and spirited philosophical and theological debates.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Mojca Kumerdej is a Slovene writer and philosopher. In 2017, she received the Prešeren Award for The Harvest of Chronos. Rawley Grau, originally from Baltimore, has lived in Ljubljana since 2001. He translated Panorama, by Dušan Šarotar, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. His translation from Russian of A Science Not from the Earth was awarded the AATSEEL Prize for Best Scholarly Translation in 2016. 

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Harvest of Chronos
Verlag: Istros Books Nov 2017
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu