Knowledge of angels

Jill Paton Walsh

Original title: Knowledge of Angels

earliest edition we have, 1994 Psichogios, 1997 346 pages

This "disturbing and beautiful novel of ideas" (Ursula K. Le Guin) is enacted by a wide variety of characters on a Mediterranean island before the Reformation: a saintly monk whose faith is sorely tested; a wild, flesh-eating child who is captured by mountain shepherds and taken to the cardinal prince of the island; a castaway who swims ashore to a very strange welcome. Peopled by peasants, servants, shepherds, prie...

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Editions we hold

Meleklerin Suskunlugu paperback · 2013 · Pena · 304 pages · 9786055057039
Knowledge of Angels edition · 2011 · Transworld Publishers Limited · 288 pages · 9781446423042
Knowledge of Angels paperback · 1998 · Black Swan · 283 pages · 9780552997805
E gnoe ton aggeln edition · 1997 · Psichogios · 346 pages
Ce que savent les anges paperback · 1996 · Denoël · 333 pages · 9782207244531
Knowledge of angels edition · 1995 · Bantam Books · 268 pages
Knowledge of angels edition · 1995 · ISIS · 311 pages
Knowledge of angels edition · 1995 · Black Swan · 284 pages
Knowledge of angels edition · 1994 · Houghton Mifflin · 268 pages
Knowledge of angels edition · 1994 · Green Bay · 268 pages · 9780948845055

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