The Liars' Gospel: From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's P

Description: The Liars' Gospel by Naomi Alderman Iehuda, who was once Yehoshuahs friend, recalls how he came to lose his faith and find a place among the Romans. Caiaphas, the High Priest at the great Temple in Jerusalem, tries to hold the peace between Rome and Judea. Bar-Avo, a rebel, strives to bring that peace tumbling down. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description He was a traitor, a rabble-leader, a rebel, a liar and a pretender to the throne. We have tried to forget him here.This is the story of a Jewish man, Yehoshuah, who wandered Roman-occupied Judea giving sermons and healing the sick. Now, a year after his death, four people tell their stories. His mother flashes between grief and rage while trouble brews between her village and the occupying soldiers. Iehuda, who was once Yehoshuahs friend, recalls how he came to lose his faith and find a place among the Romans. Caiaphas, the High Priest at the great Temple in Jerusalem, tries to hold the peace between Rome and Judea. Bar-Avo, a rebel, strives to bring that peace tumbling down.This thrilling novel makes the oldest story entirely new. Viscerally powerful in its depictions of the realities of the period- massacres and riots, animal sacrifice and human betrayal, it finds echoes of the present in the past. It was a time of political power-play and brutal tyranny and occupation. Young men and women took to the streets to protest. Dictators put them down with iron force. Rumours spread from mouth to mouth. Rebels attacked the greatest Empire the world has ever known. The Empire gathered its forces to make those rebels pay.And in the midst of all of that, one inconsequential preacher died. And either something miraculous happened, or someone lied. Notes A new edition of the novel which depicts the story of Jesus in an entirely new way. With a new cover to tie in with Aldermans later book The Power, which won the Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2017. Author Biography Naomi Alderman is the author of four novels. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers and in 2007 she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, as well as being selected as one of Waterstones 25 Writers for the Future. All of her novels have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4s Book at Bedtime. In 2013 she was selected for the prestigious Granta Best of Young British Writers. She lives in London. Review Witty, dark and compelling -- Charlotte MendelsonThe dark wit that characterised her previous novels, Disobedience and The Lessons, runs through this book as an undercurrent, but The Liars Gospel shows the hand of a mature novelist, a daring and accomplished work on a broad canvas. She is as much at home describing the sorrow of a mother as the cut and thrust of theological debate, as convincing on the weariness of a man forced into moral compromise as the rush of blood in a teenage boy caught up in his first riot. She paints the sweep of history through the sharp pain of human love and loss, and it is a remarkable achievement. -- Stephanie Merritt * The Observer *Exciting, entertaining and enthralling read - this is story telling of the very highest order. Its certainly one of my books of the year. * Bookbag *Remarkable. Alderman is a supremely talented writer -- Joanne HarrisA series of thoughtful, humane sketches that seek to earnestly put the meat of character on the bones of the bible... An evocative, secular exploration of the New Testaments sprawling horizons * Metro *Marvellously told and wonderfully done -- Maeve KennedySuch intensity ... a big book about history and violence, you can feel the blood running off the page. It is also a very personal and human book -- Dreda Say MitchellFirst piece Ive read that puts you completely into the Jewish history. A fascinating new look -- Cahal DallatGripping and visceral -- Arifa Akbar * The Independent *The descriptions of violence are visceral. Parts could be describing contemporary Afghanistan with only a change of names... indisputably elegant. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *Stunningly accomplished ... a novel of such intensity, meaning and depth that it must be destined to become a classic -- BidishaBrilliantly evocative... Naomi Alderman has given us an entire Jewish gospel. Yehoshuah is a Jewish Jesus, the creation of a Jewish novelist; and yet it is the genius and the generosity of Aldermans novel, it seems to me, that it does not preclude an alternative perspective, one in which mystery does indeed haunt the events it describes. -- Tom Holland * Guardian * Promotional It was a time of brutal tyranny and occupation. Young men and women took to the streets to protest. Dictators put them down with iron force. Rumours spread. Rebels attacked the greatest empire the world has ever known. Review Text Witty, dark and compelling Review Quote A visceral retelling of the events surrounding the life of Jesus Promotional "Headline" It was a time of brutal tyranny and occupation. Young men and women took to the streets to protest. Dictators put them down with iron force. Rumours spread. Rebels attacked the greatest empire the world has ever known. Details ISBN0670919918 Author Naomi Alderman Year 2013 ISBN-10 0670919918 ISBN-13 9780670919918 Media Book Series Viking Language English Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.92 Subtitle From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2017 Format Paperback UK Release Date 2013-04-25 Narrator Llewella Gideon Affiliation Victoria Moran Position Author Qualifications QC Pages 272 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Publication Date 2013-04-25 Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Alternative 9780670919925 Audience General NZ Release Date 2018-04-04 AU Release Date 2018-04-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:51721796;

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