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To Calais, In Ordinary Time: Nominiert: The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020, Nominiert: The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2020

To Calais, In Ordinary Time: Nominiert: The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020, Nominiert: The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2020

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Wydawnictwo Canongate Books
Data wydania 2019
Liczba stron 400
Forma publikacji książka w miękkiej oprawie
Język angielski
ISBN 9781786896766
Kategorie Beletrystyka historyczna
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY EXPRESS, SCOTSMAN and SPECTATOR


Three journeys. One road.


England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais.

Coming in their direction from across the Channel is the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half of the population of Northern Europe. As the journey unfolds, overshadowed by the archers' past misdeeds and clerical warnings of the imminent end of the world, the wayfarers must confront the nature of their loves and desires.

A tremendous feat of language and empathy, it summons a medieval world that is at once uncannily plausible, utterly alien and eerily reflective of our own. James Meek's extraordinary To Calais, In Ordinary Time is a novel about love, class, faith, loss, gender and desire - set against one of the biggest cataclysms of human history.

To Calais, In Ordinary Time: Nominiert: The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020, Nominiert: The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2020

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