Book - The Gospel of Liars - Alderman, Naomi

Item Condition: Used - Very Good

Author: Alderman, Naomi

Brand: INDIES. FELTRINELLI/NIGHT TIME

Number of pages: 284

Details: Product description "The Gospel of Liars" is the four-voice story of a Jew named Yehoshua of Nazareth, prophet and healer, who crosses the territories of Israel crushed by the Roman occupation preaching a visionary creed in times of war, " Love your enemy as yourself." In the words of those who knew him, but whose point of view is absent in the account of the evangelists, the abandoned mother who gave birth to him, the disciple who betrayed him, the high priest who accused him of blasphemy and the rebel who is saved in his place, his life is rebuilt. The portrait of a stubborn and silent son looking for a father in the kingdom of heaven, a vain friend who lets himself be cajoled by glory, a madman who disturbs the peace of the sacred Temple and an ally to be conquered in the fight against the oppressor. If, as Naomi Alderman says by interweaving myth and faith, "every story is at least in part a lie", these modern gospels make a story we think we know unpublished, reconstruct a human miracle of blood and dust, the possible story of a mortal man after which the world was never the same again.

EAN: 9788807041051

Release date: 2014-03-26