Nigel Farndale
Autore di The Blasphemer
Opere di Nigel Farndale
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- Opere
- 7
- Utenti
- 350
- Popolarità
- #68,329
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 18
- ISBN
- 41
- Lingue
- 2
There's a lot going on. A WWI deserter who finds love with his landlady: Daniel, his great grandson, whose relationship with his family changes forever when he and his partner nearly die in a plane crash: their daughter Martha who falls in a big way for her Muslim school teacher: a throughly evil and devious academic...
...Each of these strands would almost make a book on its own, but Farndale weaves a gripping story out of all this apparently disparate matter. It's loosely bound together by the idea of ... what? Hallucinations? Angels? Well, spiritual presences that have been known to appear in the lives , even of unbelievers, at extreme moments of stress. This isn't a big feature of the book, but it is I think an important one and links all the main characters, who all have a differing faith background, together.
A satisfying read, one which paints real, meaty pictures of the lives lived by all the main protagonists.… (altro)