The Convent - Couverture souple

Karnezis, Panos

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0224079344 ISBN 13 : 9780224079341

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 2010

Synopsis

Those whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad...

The crumbling convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in an uninhabited part of the Spanish sierra, hidden on a hill among dense pine forest. Its inhabitants are devoted to God, to solitude and silence; six women cut off from the world they've chosen to leave behind.

This is all to change, on the day that Mother Superior Maria Ines discovers a suitcase punctured with air-holes at the entrance to the retreat. Soon she is to find the box and its contents are to have consequences beyond her imagining, and that even in her carefully protected sanctuary she is unable to keep the world, or her past, at bay.

The Convent is storytelling at its very best: enthralling, highly readable and wonderfully atmospheric.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and moved to England in 1992. He was awarded an MA in Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia. He is the author of a highly praised collection of stories, Little Infamies, and three novels, The Maze, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel award, The Birthday Party and The Convent.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224079344
• ISBN 13: 9780224079341
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible