Melmoth

Perry, Sarah

ISBN 10: 0062856405 / ISBN 13: 9780062856401

Editore: Harper Collins Publisher, 2019

Paperback. Publisher overstock, may contain remainder mark on edge. Codice articolo 9780062856401B

Riassunto:

From the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent—soon to be an Apple TV+ Series

“Masterful...scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The Essex Serpent, but this is a deeper, more complex novel and more rewarding.”—The Washington Post

In Melmoth, Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, a mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe for centuries, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters—and now, it is heading in our direction.

It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts—or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless, itinerant solitude. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy.

But, unaware, as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. And then Karel disappears....

Informazioni sull?autore:

Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent, Melmoth, and After Me Comes the Flood. She lives in England.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Melmoth
Casa editrice: Harper Collins Publisher
Data di pubblicazione: 2019
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: New
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