
Knowledge Of Angels
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...
- Undertittel
- Man Booker prize shortlist
- Forfatter
- Jill Paton Walsh
- ISBN
- 9780552997805
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Vekt
- 203 gram
- Utgivelsesdato
- 2.1.1998
- Antall sider
- 288
