EPISODE · Apr 29, 2021 · 9H 42M
Listen to Pilgermann: Penguin Modern Classics by Russell Hoban
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/490192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pilgermann: Penguin Modern Classics Author: Russell Hoban Narrator: George Weightman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 29, 2021 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 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
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/490192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pilgermann: Penguin Modern Classics Author: Russell Hoban Narrator: George Weightman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 29, 2021 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 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
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