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Book Synopsis''Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple'' Guardian
It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pilgermann is a mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades, following its unlikely hero and those he meets on a journey of picaresque horror across a Europe of hatreds, visions and a desperate wish for salvation.
''A dark treatise on the mysterious nature of things ... The world according to Pilgermann is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch, pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel'' The New York Times Book Review
''A strange and beautiful work'' Evening Standard
Trade ReviewSuperb ...
Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple. * The Guardian *
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Pilgermann is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch's grotesque depictions of hell and the literary traditions of pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel. It is a novel of ideas... sophisticated and demanding. * New York Times Book Review *
A strange and beautiful work, whose mysteries are worth contemplation. Hoban's prose is constantly persuasive.
Pilgermann is that rare thing - a novel that can be read with profit more than once. * Evening Standard *
