The kingdom
Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957-2018
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Corinth, ancient Greece, 2000 years ago. An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a sign of something enormous. Like a contagion, the story will spread over the city, the country and, eventually, the world. Emmanuel Carrère's astonishing historical epic tells the story of the mysterious beginnings of Christianity, bringing to life a distant, primeval past of strange sects, apocalyptic beliefs and political turmoil. In doing so Carrère, once himself a fervent believer, questions his own faith, asks why we believe in resurrection, and what it means.
Main title:
The kingdom / Emmanuel Carrère ; translated from the French by John Lambert.
Author:
Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957-, authorLambert, John, 1960-, translator
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2018.
Collation:
400 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2017.
ISBN:
9780141981154 (pbk)
Dewey class:
843.92FICTION
Language:
EnglishFrench
Added title:
BRN:
2622472