Římskokatolický kněz prožívá krizi víry ve stejné době, kdy se zamiluje do vdané ženy. Poblíž Jeruzaléma najdou archeologové svitek, který, pokud se prokáže, že je pravý, může vyvolat nutnost nově interpretovat křesťanství. V další dějové linii, se za druhé světové války ve fašistické Itálii rodí nebezpečná vášeň a doutná v Němci okupovaném Římě. Další milostný vztah je zasazený do současnosti.
An irresistible narrative of courage and endeavour. A story that captures nature at its most beautiful and most brutal and which unlocks the intricacies at the heart of human relationships. Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become estranged. Rob is nevertheless amazed and grief-stricken when he hears of Jamie's
The beautiful novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Glass Room and The Girl Who Fell from the Sky.
It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit Czechoslovakia where Alexander Dubcek's "socialism with a human face" is smiling on
The gripping new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Glass Room and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky.
The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it?Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea...Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, sits primly in a second class carriage on the train from