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Naomi Alderman: The Liars' Gospel Naomi Alderman: The Liars' Gospel Naomi Alderman: The Liars' Gospel

From ​the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017

'A visceral retelling of the events surrounding the life of Jesus' Hilary Mantel, Guardian, Books of the Year

'He was a traitor, a rabble-leader, a rebel, a liar and a pretender to the throne. We have tried to forget him here.'

Now, a year after Yehoshuah's death, four people tell their stories. His mother flashes between grief and rage while trouble brews between her village and the occupying soldiers. Iehuda, who was once Yehoshuah's friend, recalls how he came to lose his faith and find a place among the Romans. Caiaphas, the High Priest at the great Temple in Jerusalem, tries to hold the peace between Rome and Judea. Bar-Avo, a rebel, strives to bring that peace tumbling down.

Viscerally powerful in its depictions of the realities of the period: massacres and riots, animal sacrifice and human betrayal, The Liars' Gospel finds echoes of the present in the past. It… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2012

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Penguin, London, 2014
264 oldal · ASIN: B008IBGTHQ

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