The Pope's Rhinoceros

Autor Lawrence Norfolk Ilustrat de Albrecht Durer

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 1997

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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1998)

The tale of the sinking of a Portuguese ship off the coast of Italy in 1516, while attempting to deliver a rhinoceros to Pope Leo X. The hero, Salvestro, is caught up in a mission to Rome by a sect of secretive monks from a Baltic island, their first pilgrimage in 200 years.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780749398743
ISBN-10: 0749398744
Pagini: 768
Dimensiuni: 129 x 200 x 49 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Lawrence Norfolk was born in London in 1963. He has written four novels of historical fiction.

Recenzii

"Bawdy baroque-punk prose of marvellous fluency, overlaid with a gloss of heavy-weight erudition... an astonishing achievement, little short of a masterpiece" -- William Dalrymple Independent on Sunday "A gargantuan, dazzling fable by Britain's brightest young writer" -- Steven Poole Guardian "A story of adventure enthralling in its scope and inventiveness, by turns comic and horrific, zestful and elegaic, involving a reclusive order of monks whose church is slowly sliding into the sea; Renaissance Rome with its sexual license and political rivalries; war and atrocity in the Central Italian States; and a remote tribe in the West African rain forest. Running through this variegated fable is the search for the rhinoceros. The exuberance, the sheer proliferation of incident and scene, are disciplined and controlled by unerring narrative pace and cunning" -- Barry Unsworth Daily Telegraph "A truly fabulous piece of new British fiction" -- James Saynor Observer

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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee, 1998

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