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Knowledge Of Angels: Man Booker prize shortlist by Paton Walsh, Jill

A beautiful, magical novel. It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders- one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment. But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which will transform what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death...

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EAN	9780552997805
UPC	9780552997805
ISBN	9780552997805
Item Length	19.8 cm
Publication Year	1995
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Book Title	Knowledge of Angels: Man Booker Prize Shortlist
Item Height	198mm
Author	Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Topic	Books
Item Width	127mm
Item Weight	199g
Number of Pages	288 Pages

A beautiful, magical novel.It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders- one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment.But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which will transform what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death...