Leper's Companions A Novel

Name: Leper's Companions A Novel
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ISBN: 9780679758389

ISBN-10: 0679758380

ISBN-13: 9780679758389

Edition: N/A

Authors: Julia Blackburn

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In this fascinatingly imaginative novel, Julia Blackburn has decimated all the rules, creating a magical tale that is part fable, part allegory, part present, part past, and wholly genuine and poetic. The unnamed protagonist has recently lost someone she loved, and her solution is to abandon the present, and the overwhelming pain. The seamless narrative lands her in a medieval seaside village where mermaids wash ashore, devils haunt in packs, a child is born with the head of a fish, and where one day, quite out of nowhere, there emerges a sage and wandering leper. The leper leads a small group of the villagers, including the protagonist, on a journey to Jerusalem, a harrowing pilgrimage…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/5/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.15" wide x 8.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Julia Blackburn has written six books of non-fiction, a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J.R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy.