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A spellbinding, major new novel from one of Britain's finest young writers. A taut, suspenseful tale of an unexpected arrival at a Spanish convent and the intrigue that ensues among the order.
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.
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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“A convincing tale of how years of living in near-isolation while brooding over past mistakes may lead to madness, especially in a sensitive soul in a repressed society.”
—Library Journal
“Simply and beautifully written. . . . A haunting and psychologically dense novel.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“The sense of slow-burning doom, rendered in deceptively simple prose, culminates in a series of startling revelations. . . . The novel’s concern with the claims the past makes on the present makes the emotional investment it asks for well worth it.”
—Publishers Weekly
“An impressive addition to the works of a master storyteller.”
—The Independent
“Written with the aplomb of a recognised novelist and the canniness of an ambitious one. . . . Karnezis . . . [is a] fluent and attractive spellbinder.
—Ursula K Le Guin, The Guardian
"A blistering human drama.... Karnezis's great skill is in evoking the haunting beauty of lost places and souls, of individuals moving through an unforgiving European landscape.... There is a strength and confidence to Karnezis's prose.... The strange mood of The Convent is hard to escape."
—The Times
L'autore:
—Library Journal
“Simply and beautifully written. . . . A haunting and psychologically dense novel.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“The sense of slow-burning doom, rendered in deceptively simple prose, culminates in a series of startling revelations. . . . The novel’s concern with the claims the past makes on the present makes the emotional investment it asks for well worth it.”
—Publishers Weekly
“An impressive addition to the works of a master storyteller.”
—The Independent
“Written with the aplomb of a recognised novelist and the canniness of an ambitious one. . . . Karnezis . . . [is a] fluent and attractive spellbinder.
—Ursula K Le Guin, The Guardian
"A blistering human drama.... Karnezis's great skill is in evoking the haunting beauty of lost places and souls, of individuals moving through an unforgiving European landscape.... There is a strength and confidence to Karnezis's prose.... The strange mood of The Convent is hard to escape."
—The Times
PANOS KARNEZIS was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering at Oxford and worked in industry before starting to write in English. He studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Little Infamies, a collection of connected short stories set in a nameless Greek village, and two previous novels: The Maze, shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award, and The Birthday Party. Panos Karnezis lives in London.
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- EditoreKnopf Canada
- Data di pubblicazione2010
- ISBN 10 0676978894
- ISBN 13 9780676978896
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine224
- Valutazione libreria
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