Pilgermann

Author(s)

• Hoban, Russell

Bibliographic Information

Pilgermann

Russell Hoban

（Penguin modern classics）（Penguin fiction）

Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2021, c1983

• : [pbk.]

Note

Originally published: [London] : Jonathan Cape, 1983

"Quotes and references": p. 267-[271]

Description and Table of Contents

Description

'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

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BC07292933
• ISBN:
  • 9780241485743
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [London]
• Pages/Volumes: 270 p., [1] p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 813.54
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Jews -- Europe -- Fiction
  • LCSH : Crusades -- First, 1096-1099 -- Fiction
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00548998
  • BA2550615X