'This is a brilliant,shocking book...also witty,painfully self-critical and humane ...it is a work of great literature'Tim Whitmarsh, Guardian'The Kingdom,already a huge bestseller in France,is thrilling,magnificent and strange'Bryan Appleyard,Sunday TimesThe sensational international bestseller from one of France's most fêted writers - an epic novel telling the story of Christianity as it has never been told before,and one man's crisis of faith.Corinth,ancient Greece,two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher,poor,wracked by illness,tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea,who came back from the dead,and whose return is a sign of something enormous. Like a contagion,the story will spread over the city,the country and,eventually,the world. Emmanuel Carrère's astonishing historical epic tells the story of the mysterious beginnings of Christianity,bringing to life a distant,primeval past of strange sects,apocalyptic beliefs and political turmoil. In doing so Carrère,once himself a fervent believer,questions his own faith,asks why we believe in resurrection,and what it means. The Kingdom is his masterpiece.'An utterly brilliant book'Catherine Nixey,The Times
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141981154Number of pages: 400Weight: 292 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 22 mm
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Brilliant,shocking... also witty,painfully self-critical and humane... it is a work of great literatureEmmanuel Carrère is said by many to be one of the best writers in France,if not Europe... The Kingdom,a huge bestseller in France,is thrilling,magnificent and strangeAn utterly brilliant book... Carrère is a vivid guide and a knowledgeable oneA novelised memoir that vividly captures the drama of the Christian experience... A celebration of religious imagination - Catholic,French,Judaic,Hellenic - The Kingdom has been a runaway bestseller in France. In Britain,it may succeed as a relief and an antidoteThere are few great writers in France today,and Emmanuel Carrère is one of them
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