The Pope's Rhinoceros - Couverture rigide

Norfolk, Lawrence

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1856194132 ISBN 13 : 9781856194136

Editeur : Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

Set on the brink of the Reformation, this is a parable of an age rushing to its crisis. After hunting for the sunken city of Vineta, Salvestro is redeployed to find a rhinoceros to be given to the Pope. The story culminates in the sinking of the rhinoceros in 1516 on its way from India to Rome.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Bawdy baroque-punk prose of marvellous fluency, overlaid with a gloss of heavy-weight erudition... an astonishing achievement, little short of a masterpiece" (William Dalrymple Independent on Sunday)

"A gargantuan, dazzling fable by Britain's brightest young writer" (Steven Poole Guardian)

"A story of adventure enthralling in its scope and inventiveness, by turns comic and horrific, zestful and elegaic, involving a reclusive order of monks whose church is slowly sliding into the sea; Renaissance Rome with its sexual license and political rivalries; war and atrocity in the Central Italian States; and a remote tribe in the West African rain forest. Running through this variegated fable is the search for the rhinoceros. The exuberance, the sheer proliferation of incident and scene, are disciplined and controlled by unerring narrative pace and cunning" (Barry Unsworth Daily Telegraph)

"A truly fabulous piece of new British fiction" (James Saynor Observer)

Présentation de l'éditeur

In February 1516, a Portugese ship sank with the loss of all hands a mile off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora da Adjuda had sailed 14000 miles from the Indian kingdom Gujarat: her mission, to deliver a rhinoceros to the Pope. The Pope's Rhinoceros tells the stories which culminate in this bizarre incident. Ranging from the Baltic Sea to a flyblown colony in India, from a tribe hidden in the African rain forest to atrocities committed in an obscure town in Tuscany, Norfolk's brilliant novel holds up the true history of the rhinoceros as a mirror to the fantasies and obsessions of the Renaissance.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856194132
• ISBN 13: 9781856194136
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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