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'Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple' Guardian It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pilgermann is a mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades, following its unlikely hero and those he meets on a journey of picaresque horror across a Europe of hatreds, visions and a desperate wish for salvation. 'A dark treatise on the mysterious nature of things ... The world according to Pilgermann is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch, pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel' The New York Times Book Review 'A strange and beautiful work' Evening Standard
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Pilgermann, Russell Hoban
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1983
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- Titel
- Pilgermann
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Russell Hoban
- Verlag
- J. Cape
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1983
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0224020722
- ISBN13
- 9780224020725
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Fantasy, Historische Romane, Religiöse Themen, 20. Jahrhundert
- Bewertung
- 3,75 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 'Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple' Guardian It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pilgermann is a mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades, following its unlikely hero and those he meets on a journey of picaresque horror across a Europe of hatreds, visions and a desperate wish for salvation. 'A dark treatise on the mysterious nature of things ... The world according to Pilgermann is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch, pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel' The New York Times Book Review 'A strange and beautiful work' Evening Standard