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The Anchoress - Couverture souple

Cadwallader, Robyn

 
9781250094674: The Anchoress
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1250094674 ISBN 13 : 9781250094674
Editeur : Picador USA, 2016

Synopsis

"The book that the whole literary world can't stop talking about." --Marie Claire (Australia)
"A considerable achievement." --Sarah Dunant, The New York Times Book Review

England, 1255: Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a small cell, measuring seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister as well as the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world--with all its dangers, desires, and temptations--and commit herself to a life of prayer. But when she starts hearing the voice of the previous anchoress whispering to her, seemingly from the stones themselves, it soon becomes clear that even the thick, unforgiving walls of Sarah's cell cannot protect her as well as she had thought.

An absorbing story of faith, desire, shame, fear, and the human need for connection, The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader is a haunting and compelling novel: both quietly heartbreaking and thrillingly unpredictable.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robyn Cadwallader has published numerous prizewinning short stories and reviews, as well as a book of poetry and a nonfiction book based on her PhD thesis concerning attitudes toward virginity and women in the Middle Ages. She lives among vineyards outside Canberra, Australia, when not traveling to England for research and visiting ancient archaeological sites along the way. The Anchoress is her first novel.

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Éditeur
Picador USA
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1250094674
ISBN 13 
9781250094674
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
Picador
https://www.panmacmillan.com/picador

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