{"product_id":"the-liars-gospel-9780670919918","title":"The Liars Gospel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Power\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Baileys Women''s Prize for Fiction 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIT BEGINS AND ENDS WITH A SACRIFICE... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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 had ever known. The empire gathered its forces to make those rebels pay. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd in the midst of all of that, one preacher by the name of Jesus died. And either something miraculous happened or someone lied. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the truth according to \u003ci\u003eThe Liars'' Gospel.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWitty, dark and compelling -- Charlotte Mendelson\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 *\u003cbr\u003eExciting, entertaining and enthralling read - this is story telling of the very highest order. It's certainly one of my books of the year. * Bookbag *\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable. Alderman is a supremely talented writer -- Joanne Harris\u003cbr\u003eA 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 *\u003cbr\u003eMarvellously told and wonderfully done -- Maeve Kennedy\u003cbr\u003eSuch 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 Mitchell\u003cbr\u003eFirst piece I've read that puts you completely into the Jewish history. A fascinating new look -- Cahal Dallat\u003cbr\u003eGripping and visceral -- Arifa Akbar * The Independent *\u003cbr\u003e'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 *\u003cbr\u003eStunningly accomplished ... a novel of such intensity, meaning and depth that it must be destined to become a classic -- Bidisha\u003cbr\u003eBrilliantly 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 Alderman's 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 *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735959449943,"sku":"9780670919918","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780670919918.jpg?v=1723810413","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-liars-gospel-9780670919918","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}