Pilgermann: Penguin Modern Classics [Audiobook]
English | April 29, 2021 | ASIN: B08XZSYQZC | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 42m | 529 MB
Author: Russell Hoban | Narrator: George Weightman
English | April 29, 2021 | ASIN: B08XZSYQZC | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 42m | 529 MB
Author: Russell Hoban | Narrator: George Weightman
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