The Convent - Brossura

Karnezis, Panos

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0224079344 ISBN 13: 9780224079341

Casa editrice: Jonathan Cape, 2010

Riassunto

Those whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad...

The crumbling convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in an uninhabited part of the Spanish sierra, hidden on a hill among dense pine forest. Its inhabitants are devoted to God, to solitude and silence; six women cut off from the world they've chosen to leave behind.

This is all to change, on the day that Mother Superior Maria Ines discovers a suitcase punctured with air-holes at the entrance to the retreat. Soon she is to find the box and its contents are to have consequences beyond her imagining, and that even in her carefully protected sanctuary she is unable to keep the world, or her past, at bay.

The Convent is storytelling at its very best: enthralling, highly readable and wonderfully atmospheric.

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Recensione:

`unexpectedly haunting, its details catching like splinters in that part of the imagination that responds to pure storytelling'.
--TLS

'Panos Karnezis writes with assurance of a world which must, perforce, be closed to him' --Daily Mail

'impressive third novel . . . despair, cruelty, generosity, scandal, suspicion, and suicide, all told with immense verve and skill.' --Sunday Times, Culture

'Panos Karnezis's fourth novel is written with the aplomb of a recognised novelist' --Guardian Review

'this fragrant, fond and faintly otherworldly novel, with its final, poignant twist, is a memorable read.' --The Lady

`The Convent is at once a still, almost silent thing, and a blistering human drama... There is a strength and confidence to Karnezis's prose'. --Times

Descrizione del libro:

A major new novel from one of our finest young writers, author of Little Infamies and The Maze

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• Editore: Jonathan Cape
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0224079344
• ISBN 13: 9780224079341
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224