Aline Kiner

The Mirror of Simple Souls (eBook, ePUB)

'A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month'
Übersetzer: Emanuel, Susan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A captivating story of love, jealousy and faith, set amid a community of independent women in medieval Paris

"Brilliantly juggles history and fiction" - Le Figaro

"Sensitive and subtle in substance, carnal and poetic in form... A luminous novel" - Huffingtonpost.fr

"Leads us with brio into a little-known Middle Ages of strong, erudite, supportive, and generous women" - Page des libraires

A heretical text, a vengeful husband, a forbidden love...

It's 1310 and Paris is alive with talk of the trial of the Templars. Religious repression is on the rise, and the smoke of execution pyres blackens the sky above the city. But sheltered behind the walls of Paris's great beguinage, a community of women are still free to work, study and live their lives away from the domination of men.

When a wild, red-haired child clothed in rags arrives at the beguinage gate one morning, with a sinister Franciscan monk on her tail, she sets in motion a chain of events that will shatter the peace of this little world-plunging it into grave danger...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782278313
• Artikelnr.: 67560686

Autorenporträt

ALINE KINER (1959-2019) was born in Moselle, France. She later moved to Paris where she became editor-in-chief of special issues of the magazine Sciences et Avenir. The Mirror of Simple Souls was the fruit of three years of research and writing on the beguines of Paris. It was a bestseller in France and won the Prix Culture et Bibliothèques.