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Pilgermann
- Author
- Russell Hoban
- Narrator
- George Weightman
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 29 April 2021
- Run Time
- 9 hours 42 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pilgermann is a mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades, following its unlikely hero and those he meets on a journey of picaresque horror across a Europe of hatreds, visions and a desperate wish for salvation.
'Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple' Guardian
'A dark treatise on the mysterious nature of things ... The world according to Pilgermann is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch, pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel' The New York Times Book Review
'A strange and beautiful work' Evening Standard
© Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple.
The Guardian
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The world according to Pilgermann is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch's grotesque depictions of hell and the literary traditions of pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel. It is a novel of ideas... sophisticated and demanding.
New York Times Book Review
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A strange and beautiful work, whose mysteries are worth contemplation. Hoban's prose is constantly persuasive. Pilgermann is that rare thing - a novel that can be read with profit more than once.
Evening Standard
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Details
- Author
- Russell Hoban
- Narrator
- George Weightman
- Duration
- 9 hours 42 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 April 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241525128
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Historical fantasy
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pilgermann is a mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades, following its unlikely hero and those he meets on a journey of picaresque horror across a Europe of hatreds, visions and a desperate wish for salvation.'Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple' Guardian'A dark treatise on the mysterious nature of things ... The world according to Pilgermann is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch, pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel' The New York Times Book Review'A strange and beautiful work' Evening Standard© Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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