Pilgermann
Author(s): Russell Hoban
He climbs a ladder to reach another man's wife and gives himself up to her beauty, but then Pilgermann descends into a mob of peasants inspired by the Pope to shed the blood of Jews. Alone on the cobblestones, mutilated and unmanned, he cries out to Israel, to the Lord his God, to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. He is answered instead by Jesus Christ: 'I'm the one you talk to from now on.' Every day is the Day of Reckoning and the judgement Christ brings is the start of straight action. Pilgermann hears a voice from within and becomes a pilgrim. Through time and war and Death itself, he makes his way along the road to Jerusalem, struggling to find God in the horror that surrounds him.
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'Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple' Guardian
'A strange and beautiful work, whose mysteries are worth contemplation. Pilgermann is that rare thing - a novel that can be read with profit more than once' Evening Standard
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : bloom
- : 0.182
- : 02 January 2002
- : 1.6 Centimeters X 12.8 Centimeters X 19.7 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : 242
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- : Russell Hoban
