The Blasphemer - Couverture souple

Farndale, Nigel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0385617801 ISBN 13 : 9780385617802

Editeur : Doubleday, 2010

Synopsis

An astonishing, ambitious and masterful new novel, with echoes of Birdsong, that reads at the pace of a thriller.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nigel Farndale is the author of Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives on the Hampshire-Sussex border with his wife and their three children.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

On its way to the Galápagos Islands, a light aircraft ditches into the sea. As the water floods through the cabin, zoologist Daniel Kennedy faces an impossible choice - should he save himself, or Nancy, the woman he loves?

In a parallel narrative, it is 1917 and Daniel's great grandfather Andrew is preparing to go over the top at Passchendaele. He, too, will have his courage tested, and must live with the moral consequences of his actions.

Back in London, the atheistic Daniel is wrestling with something his 'cold philosophy' cannot explain - something unearthly he thought he saw while swimming for help in the Pacific. But before he can make sense of it, the past must collapse into the present, and both he and Andrew must prove themselves capable of altruism, and deserving of forgiveness.

The Blasphemer is a story about conditional love, cowardice and the possibility of redemption - and what happens to a man of science when forced to question his certainties. It is a novel of rare depth, empathy and ambition that sweeps from the trenches of the First World War to the terrorist-besieged streets of London today: a novel that will speak to the head as well as the heart of any reader.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0385617801
• ISBN 13: 9780385617802
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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