
Pilgermann
Penguin Modern Classics
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Narrated by:
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George Weightman
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By:
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Russell Hoban
About this listen
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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.
©2021 Russell Hoban (P)2021 Penguin AudioCritic reviews
"Superb.... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple." (Guardian)
"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)
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- Duncan Reyburn
- 01-08-23
At times horrifying, always poetic, often sublime
One of the profoundest and most haunting novels I’ve read. It presents a Job-like wrestling with suffering and God and the meaning of living in and journeying through an impossible age; at times horrifying, always poetic, often sublime. The performance of the actor on this audio production is superb.
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