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Women in the Wall
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9780571281541
Umbreit-Nr.: 3777882
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 326 S., 0.64 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 18.08.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- 'I am hungry for your presence. I hanker for the great blaze of your glance which when you turn it on me, will burn out the husk of my body and draw my soul to you.'Julia O'Faolian's second novel, first published in 1973, offers a rich, vivid portrait of the political and religious turmoil of sixth-century Gaul, wherein we find Radegunda, wife of King Clotair having been seized by him as a prize of war. Radegunda builds a convent, a refuge for the Brides of Christ, and there becomes renowned for her austerity and mysticism. Her religion, however, is fanatical, and her quest for sainthood will serve to undermine the seeming calm of the retreat she has made.'Vibrant and strange... [a] journey into a darker, wilder moment of history.' Sarah Dunant, Guardian
- Autorenportrait
- Julia O'Faolain