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Blissett, Luther

 
9780151010639: Q
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ISBN 10: 0151010633 ISBN 13: 9780151010639
Editorial: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004

Sinopsis

With Europe convulsed in wars over religion, a young theology student finds himself siding with heretics and the disenfranchised while confronting an agent of the Vatican who is determined to hunt down and destroy enemies of the faith, in a meticulously rendered historical thriller set against the backdrop of the Reformation. 50,000 first printing.

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Acerca del autor

First published anonymously in Italy, and crafted by four young writers under the pseudonym of LUTHER BLISSETT, Q has become a cult bestseller across Europe.

De la contraportada

"Imagine Umberto Eco's knack for the swashbuckling thriller of ideas crossed with an artful touch of Le Carre, and you have a fair idea of the novel's mood. . . . As a historical blockbuster, it boasts pace, colour, excitement and suspense to spare. . . . Q works like a charm." -- The Independent (London)

"This is a big book and a big canvas. . . . The panorama is big and bloody and breathtaking; a crush of colour and crowds, exotic locations and war. The sheer weight of its authors' historical research provides a convincing backdrop for the fictional heroes." -- The Times (London)
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"Imagine Umberto Eco's knack for the swashbuckling thriller of ideas crossed with an artful touch of Le Carre, and you have a fair idea of the novel's mood. . . . As a historical blockbuster, it boasts pace, colour, excitement and suspense to spare. . . . Q works like a charm." -- The Independent (London)

"This is a big book and a big canvas. . . . The panorama is big and bloody and breathtaking; a crush of colour and crowds, exotic locations and war. The sheer weight of its authors' historical research provides a convincing backdrop for the fictional heroes." -- The Times (London)

De la solapa interior

A bestseller across Europe, Q is a hugely ambitious and brilliantly achieved novel set in the chaos of Reformation Europe.

In 1517 Martin Luther nails his 95 theses demanding reform of the Catholic Church to the door of the cathedral church in Wittenburg, setting off the period of upheaval, war, and violence we now know as the Reformation. During the reigns of the Habsburg Charles V and his enemy the French king Francis I, the Papacy desperately struggles to secure its position and undermine its political opponents.

Meanwhile, as declared foes of the Roman Church, the radical Protestant Anabaptists are in rebellion against an entire order of European society and are persecuted and brutalized by those outside their sphere.

In this age devastated by the wars of religion, a young theology student adopts the cause of the heretics and the disinherited. Across the chessboard of Europe, from the German plains to the flourishing Dutch cities and south to Venice, our hero, an Anabaptist who travels under many names, and his enemy, Q, a papal informer and heretic hunter, play a game in which no moves are forbidden. What begins as a struggle to reveal each other's identity eventually becomes part of a much greater mission: to destroy and achieve domination over each other.

Part thriller, part novel of ideas, Q is as richly imagined as Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose or Iain Pears' An Instance of the Fingerpost and as subversively political as Michel Houellebecq's Atomised.
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A bestseller across Europe, Q is a hugely ambitious and brilliantly achieved novel set in the chaos of Reformation Europe.

In 1517 Martin Luther nails his 95 theses demanding reform of the Catholic Church to the door of the cathedral church in Wittenburg, setting off the period of upheaval, war, and violence we now know as the Reformation. During the reigns of the Habsburg Charles V and his enemy the French king Francis I, the Papacy desperately struggles to secure its position and undermine its political opponents.

Meanwhile, as declared foes of the Roman Church, the radical Protestant Anabaptists are in rebellion against an entire order of European society and are persecuted and brutalized by those outside their sphere.

In this age devastated by the wars of religion, a young theology student adopts the cause of the heretics and the disinherited. Across the chessboard of Europe, from the German plains to the flourishing Dutch cities and south to Venice, our hero, an Anabaptist who travels under many names, and his enemy, Q, a papal informer and heretic hunter, play a game in which no moves are forbidden. What begins as a struggle to reveal each other's identity eventually becomes part of a much greater mission: to destroy and achieve domination over each other.

Part thriller, part novel of ideas, Q is as richly imagined as Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose or Iain Pears'An Instance of the Fingerpost and as subversively political as Michel Houellebecq'sAtomised.

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Editorial
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0151010633
ISBN 13 
9780151010639
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
768
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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