Knowledge Of Angels
Man Booker prize shortlist
$32.57
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 February 1998
Summary
A beautiful, magical novel.
It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century, and the ordered tranquility of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dang…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552997805 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552997803 |
| Author: | Jill Paton Walsh |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 1998 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
‘A compelling medieval fable, written from the heart and melded to a driving narrative which never once loses its tremendous pace’
‘A compelling medieval fable, written from the heart and melded to a driving narrative which never once loses its tremendous pace’ * Guardian *
‘An irresistible blend of intellect and passion’ * Mail on Sunday *
‘This remarkable novel resembles an illuminated manuscript mapped with angels and mountains and signposts, an allegory for today and yesterday too. A beautiful, unsettling moral fiction about virtue and intolerance’ * Observer *
‘Remarkable…Utterly absorbing…richly detailed and finely imagined’ * Sunday Telegraph *
‘The lucidity of Jill Paton Walsh’s style and the dexerity of the narrative are such that her book reads more like a good thriller than a weighty novel of ideas…An ingenious fable’ * The Times *
About The Author
Jill Paton Walsh
Jill Paton Walsh was educated at St Michael’s Convent, North Finchley, and at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She is the author of several highly praised adult novels: Lapsing, A School For Lovers, Knowledge of Angels, which was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize, Goldengrove Unleaving, The Serpentine Cave and A Desert in Bohemia. She has also won many awards for her children’s literature, including the Whitbread Prize, the Universe Prize and the Smarties Award. She has three children and lives in Cambridge.
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