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Author | : Paul M.M. Cooper |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2020-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1408879425 |
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'Superbly told' The Times 'Richly imagined' Sunday Times 'An engrossing, seamlessly written deliberation on the enduring power of art' Mail on Sunday Assyria, in the reign of Ashurbanipal. For Aurya and Sharo, every day is a struggle for survival. One evening, everything changes. Soon, they are on the barge of King Ashurbanipal, bound for the city of Nineveh. Their fates become inextricably bound to that of the king – and the injured lion captured by his men. Twenty-six centuries later, British-Iraqi archaeologist Katya joins a dig in Mosul to protect the ancient ruins of Nineveh from looters. But the real world crashes in to their studious idyll when ISIL storm Mosul – and take Katya, Salim and local girl Lola hostage. 'Dual timeline novels often fail: one strand is more interesting than the other, or the links between the two are contrived. Not here. Both stories are superbly told and share the same preoccupation – the coexistence of cruelty and creative beauty' The Times, Historical Novel of the Month
Author | : Paul M.M. Cooper |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1526642840 |
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'Superbly told' The Times 'Richly imagined' Sunday Times 'An engrossing, seamlessly written deliberation on the enduring power of art' Mail on Sunday Assyria, in the reign of Ashurbanipal. For Aurya and Sharo, every day is a struggle for survival. One evening, everything changes. Soon, they are on the barge of King Ashurbanipal, bound for the city of Nineveh. Their fates become inextricably bound to that of the king – and the injured lion captured by his men. Twenty-six centuries later, British-Iraqi archaeologist Katya joins a dig in Mosul to protect the ancient ruins of Nineveh from looters. But the real world crashes in to their studious idyll when ISIL storm Mosul – and take Katya, Salim and local girl Lola hostage. 'Dual timeline novels often fail: one strand is more interesting than the other, or the links between the two are contrived. Not here. Both stories are superbly told and share the same preoccupation – the coexistence of cruelty and creative beauty' The Times, Historical Novel of the Month
Author | : Paul M.M. Cooper |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2016-01-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1632860716 |
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In thirteenth-century Sri Lanka, Asanka, poet to the king, lives a life of luxury, enjoying courtly life and a sweet, furtive love affair with a palace servant, a village girl he is teaching to write. But when Magha, a prince from the mainland, usurps the throne, Asanka's role as court poet dramatically alters. Magha is a cruel and calculating king--and yet, a lover of poetry--and he commissions Asanka to translate a holy Sanskrit epic into the Tamil language spoken by his recently acquired subjects. The poem will be an olive branch--a symbol of unity between the two cultures. But in different languages, in different contexts, meaning can become slippery. First inadvertently, then deliberately and dangerously, Asanka's version of the epic, centered on the killing of an unjust ruler, inspires and arouses the oppressed people of the land. Asanka must juggle the capricious demands of a king with the growing demands of his own political consciousness--and his heart--if he wishes to survive and imagine a future with the woman he loves. The first novel from a remarkable young writer, River of Ink is a powerful historical tale set in the shadow of oppression--one with deep allegorical resonances in any time--celebrating the triumph of literature and love.
Author | : Margaret Aston |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1994 |
Release | : 2015-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316060470 |
Download Broken Idols of the English Reformation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston's magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the crucifixion in stained glass windows and who pulled down crosses and defaced symbols of the Trinity. She shows that destruction was part of a methodology of religious revolution designed to change people as well as places and to forge in the long term new generations of new believers. Beyond blanked walls and whited windows were beliefs and minds impregnated by new modes of religious learning. Idol-breaking with its emphasis on the treacheries of images fundamentally transformed not only Anglican ways of worship but also of seeing, hearing and remembering.
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Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Children's stories, American |
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Total Pages | : 880 |
Release | : 1868 |
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Download The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Fred Thaumazo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : American fiction |
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Author | : Joseph Edwards Carpenter |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Download My Jubilee Volume. [In Verse.] Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Herbert Henry Gowen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : China |
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Download From the Manchu conquest to the recognition of the republic, A. D. 1913 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle