'This is a brilliant, shocking book ... also witty, painfully
self-critical and humane ... it is a work of great literature' Tim
Whitmarsh, Guardian 'The Kingdom, already a huge bestseller in
France, is thrilling, magnificent and strange' Bryan Appleyard,
Sunday Times The sensational international bestseller from one of
France's most feted writers - an epic novel telling the story of
Christianity as it has never been told before, and one man's crisis
of faith. Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand 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 Carrere'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 Carrere, once himself a fervent
believer, questions his own faith, asks why we believe in
resurrection, and what it means. The Kingdom is his masterpiece.
'An utterly brilliant book' Catherine Nixey, The Times
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