John the Pupil - By David Flusfeder

The extraordinary new novel from David Flusfeder.

This, his seventh novel, is a medieval road movie, Umberto Eco seen through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino, recounting the journey taken from Oxford to Viterbo in 1267 by John and his two companions, at the behest of the friar and magus Roger Bacon, carrying a secret burden to His Holiness Clement IV. As well as having to fight off ambushes from thieves hungry for the thing of power they are carrying, the holy trio are tried and tempted by all sorts of sins: ambition, pride, lust – and by the sheer hell and heaven of medieval life. Erudite and earthy, horrifying, comic, humane, ‘John the Pupil’ reveals to the reader a world very different and all too like the one we live in now.

Book Information:

Format: Hardcover

Published: 2014

Category: Historical Fiction

Pages: 240

Dimensions: 223 x 145mm

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