The Kingdom

byEmmanuel Carrère, John Lambert (Translator)
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.

Brilliant, shocking... also witty, painfully self-critical and humane... it is a work of great literature

Tim Whitmarsh, Guardian

About Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of The Adversary (a New York Times Notable Book), Lives Other Than My Own, My Life As A Russian Novel, Class Trip, Limonov and The Mustache.
Details
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780141981154
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 294g
  • Price: £10.99
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