The Convent *****UNC PROOF****

Karnezis, Panos

ISBN 10: 0224079344 / ISBN 13: 9780224079341

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2010

About this Item

UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Fine condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Convent *****UNC PROOF****
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224079344
• ISBN 13: 9780224079341
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

Those whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad...

The crumbling convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in an uninhabited part of the Spanish sierra, hidden on a hill among dense pine forest. Its inhabitants are devoted to God, to solitude and silence; six women cut off from the world they've chosen to leave behind.

This is all to change, on the day that Mother Superior Maria Ines discovers a suitcase punctured with air-holes at the entrance to the retreat. Soon she is to find the box and its contents are to have consequences beyond her imagining, and that even in her carefully protected sanctuary she is unable to keep the world, or her past, at bay.

The Convent is storytelling at its very best: enthralling, highly readable and wonderfully atmospheric.

About the Author

Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and moved to England in 1992. He was awarded an MA in Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia. He is the author of a highly praised collection of stories, Little Infamies, and three novels, The Maze, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel award, The Birthday Party and The Convent.