Fludd

Belletristik

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Verfasser:
Mantel, Hilary

Verfasser Angabe:
Hilary Mantel

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Kloster
• Nonne
• Priester
• Fremder
• Großbritannien
• Glaube

Verlag:
Harper Perennial

Erscheinungsort:
London

Jahr:
2005

Umfang:
185 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-0-00-717289-4

Reihe:
P.S.

Inhalt:
Fetherhoughton is a Northern mill village, remote, backward, veiled from the twentieth century by moorland fogs. Father Angwin, its parish priest, presides over the souls of its brutish tea-swilling inhabitants. He has lost his faith and replaced it with a strong desire to be left alone - especially by the new-broom bishop. In the covent, the nuns work away at their tapestry, depicting the plagues of Egypt. The young Irish nun, Sister Philomena, yearns for freedom and a good meal, while the demonic Mother Perpetua plots her downfall.

One night, a visitor appears at the priest's house, wrapped in a cloak and carrying a black bag. His conversation is learned and his table manners mysterious. Who is this Fludd? The new curate? The bishop's spy? A practitioner of dark arts?

He has come to introduce the art of coffee making; to stir up dead passions; to force confrontations. 'I have come to transform you,' he says. 'Transformation is my business.'

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