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paperback. Clean copy showing some age and light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
Two thousand years ago four travellers enter the Judean desert to fast and pray for their lost souls. In the blistering heat and barren rocks they encounter the evil merchant Musa, who holds them in his tyrannical power. Yet there is also another, afaint figure in the distance, fasting for forty days, a Galilean who they say has the power to work miracles ...
Two thousand years ago four travellers enter the Judean desert to fast and pray for their lost souls. In the blistering heat and barren rocks they encounter the evil merchant Musa, who holds them in his tyrannical power. Yet there is also another, afaint figure in the distance, fasting for forty days, a Galilean who they say has the power to work miracles ...
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140239744
SKU
KMK0021928
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jim Crace
Jim Crace is the author of CONTINENT, THE GIFT OF STONES, ARCADIA and SIGNALS OF DISTRESS. He has won the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E.M. Forster Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the GAP International Prize for Literature. He lives in Moseley, Birmingham, with his wife and two children.
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