To Calais, In Ordinary Time - Nominiert: The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, 2020. Nominiert: The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, 2020
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| Verlag | Canongate Books |
| Auflage | 2020 |
| Seiten | 400 |
| Format | 14,5 x 19,9 x 2,6 cm |
| Print PDF | |
| Gewicht | 276 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 178689677X |
| EAN | 9781786896773 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78689677UA |
The new novel about home, belonging, love, courage and identity, set in the fourteenth century, from the Booker-longlisted author of The People's Act of Love
'Inventive and original' The Times
'Fans of intelligent historical fiction will be enthralled' Hilary Mantel
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
Three journeys. One road.
England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. In the other direction comes the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half of the population of Northern Europe.
To Calais, In Ordinary Time is an exploration of love, death and power, against the backdrop of catastrophe.
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Fans of intelligent historical fiction will be enthralled by a story so original and so fully imagined. Meek shows the era as alien, which it is, and doesn't falsify it by assimilating it to ours. But his characters are recognisably warm and human HILARY MANTEL
