Emmanuel Carrère The Kingdom (Paperback)

The KingdomEmmanuel CarrèreLabel: Penguin Books LtdDescription: 'This is a brilliant shocking book ... also witty painfully self-critical and humane ... it is a work of great literature' Tim Whitmarsh Guardian 'The Kingdom already a huge bestseller in France is thrilling magnificent and strange' Bryan Appleyard Sunday TimesThe sensational international bestseller from one of France's most fêted writers - an epic novel telling the story of Christianity as it has never been told before and one man's crisis of faith.Corinth ancient Greece two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher poor wracked by illness tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea who came back from the dead and whose return is a sign of something enormous. Like a contagion the story will spread over the city the country and eventually the world. Emmanuel Carrère's astonishing historical epic tells the story of the mysterious beginnings of Christianity bringing to life a distant primeval past of strange sects apocalyptic beliefs and political turmoil. In doing so Carrère once himself a fervent believer questions his own faith asks why we believe in resurrection and what it means. The Kingdom is his masterpiece.'An utterly brilliant book' Catherine Nixey The Times

Emmanuel Carrère's "The Kingdom" would be a fantastic fit for readers interested in political thrillers and cultural insights set in the Middle East.