The Kingdom

This is a brilliant, shocking book ... also witty, painfully self-critical and humane ... it is a work of great literature'' Tim Whitmarsh, Guardianbr>br>''The Kingdom, already a huge bestseller in France, is thrilling, magnificent and strange'' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Timesbr>br>The sensational international bestseller from one of France''s most feted writers - an epic novel telling the story of Christianity as it has never been told before, and one man''s crisis of faith.br>br>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 Carrere''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 Carrere, once himself a fervent believer, questions his own faith, asks why we believe in resurrection, and what it means. The Kingdom is his masterpiece.br>br>''An utterly brilliant book'' Catherine Nixey, The Times>

Product details

• Authors: Emmanuel Carrere, Emmanuel Carrère, John Lambert
• Assisted by: John Lambert (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780141981154
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198115-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Religious, Christianity, Philosophy of religion, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary