Knowledge Of Angels - Man Booker prize shortlist (Paperback, New Ed)

On a remote medieval island, a crucial philosophical debate takes place between Palinor, a shipwrecked atheist, and inquisitors from the church which controls the island and seeks to destroy him. Palinor is a principled and highly educated engineer, whose personal brand of humanism begins to undermine the faith of the gentle monk who is trying to convert him to Christianity. Meanwhile, the Cardinal-Prince Severo aims to reprieve Palinor from death in a bizarre social experiment that hinges on the proven innocence or otherwise of the savage wolf girl captured by simple shepherds; and the lives of the atheist and the wolf child are secretly played off against each other. This brilliant and imaginative novel is related in language that is deceptively simple, belying the complex strands of religion and ideas that provide its underlying drama, and is also remarkable for the rich tapestry of medieval life that it portrays. (Kirkus UK)

It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment. But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which will transform what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death...

General

Imprint:	Black Swan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1998
Authors:	Jill Paton Walsh
Dimensions:	199 x 131 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	283
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-552-99780-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-552-99780-3
Barcode:	9780552997805

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