Pilgermann
- Author Russell Hoban
- Narrator George Weightman
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 9 hours and 42 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical fantasy, Historical fiction.
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What to expect
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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.
'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
© Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Superb … Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple.
The Guardian -
The world according to Pilgermann is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch’s grotesque depictions of hell and the literary traditions of pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel. It is a novel of ideas… sophisticated and demanding.
New York Times Book Review -
A strange and beautiful work, whose mysteries are worth contemplation. Hoban’s prose is constantly persuasive. Pilgermann is that rare thing – a novel that can be read with profit more than once.
Evening Standard
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