The sensational international bestseller- an epic novel telling the story of Christianity as it has never been told before
Emmanuel Carrore, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of The Adversary (a New York Times Notable Book), Lives Other Than My Own, My Life As A Russian Novel, Class Trip, Limonov and The Mustache.
Emmanuel Carrère is said by many to be one of the best writers in
France, if not Europe, yet in Britain he is hardly read. This may
be about to change. The Kingdom, a huge bestseller in France, is
thrilling, magnificent and strange
*Sunday Times*
An utterly brilliant book... Carrère is a vivid guide and a
knowledgeable one
*The Times*
Brilliant, shocking... a genre-bending book of great flair: a
tribute, and indeed a monument, to the power of literary
invention
*Guardian*
A novelised memoir that vividly captures the drama of the Christian
experience... A celebration of religious imagination - Catholic,
French, Judaic, Hellenic - The Kingdom has been a runaway
bestseller in France. In Britain, it may succeed as a relief and an
antidote
*Financial Times*
I left the Catholic Church at thirteen and have not spent much time
thinking about religion since then. But Emmanuel Carrère's The
Kingdom kept me pinned to its pages until the end. It is personal
and rigorous, skeptical and open, casual and profound, and its
speculative portrait of Saint Luke, its main character, is as
compelling as any fictional life I've read lately
*Luc Sante, author of The Other Paris*
My favorite books about Christianity are Augustine's Confessions,
Origen's Contra Celsum, and, now, Emmanuel Carrère's The Kingdom.
Both a pocket history and a gripping (and surprising!) intellectual
self-portrait, I know of nothing else quite like it -- and I wish
like all hell I'd written it. Carrère is one of our planet's most
compelling, inimitable writers, and The Kingdom is, in my view, his
greatest book yet
*Tom Bissell, author of Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the
Twelve*
Emmanuel Carrère takes us on an trip from Greece to Rome and
Jerusalem, an extraordinary adventure that is fun and at times
reminiscent of Monty Python's Life of Brian
*Les Inrocks*
An astonishing book... wildly popular
*Paris Match*
One of the most shocking books of the year
*L'Express*
Erudite, ironic, trivial, thoughtful, life-changing
*Télérama*
A beguiling writer... Graceful and important
*NPR*
There are few great writers in France today, and Emmanuel Carrère
is one of them
*Paris Review*
One of the best known and most innovative French writers
*New York Times*
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