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The Convent
Panos Karnezis
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Description for The Convent
Paperback. The convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in an uninhabited part of the Spanish sierra. Its inhabitants are devoted to God, to solitude and silence; six women cut off from the world they've chosen to leave behind. Everything changes on the day that Mother Superior Maria Ines discovers a suitcase at the entrance to the retreat. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 164.
Those whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad...
The convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in an uninhabited part of the Spanish sierra. Its inhabitants are devoted to God, to solitude and silence; six women cut off from the world they've chosen to leave behind.
Everything changes on the day that a suitcase punctured with air-holes is discovered on the convent steps. Soon Mother Superior Maria Ines finds that 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099502791
SKU
V9780099502791
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Ref
99-20
About Panos Karnezis
Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967 and came to England in 1992. He studied engineering at Oxford and worked in industry before starting to write in English. He studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Little Infamies, a collection of connected short stories set in a nameless Greek village, and two previous novels; The Maze, shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award and The Birthday Party. Panos Karnezis lives in London.
Reviews for The Convent
Unexpectedly haunting, its details catching like splinters in that part of the imagination that responds to pure storytelling
Times Literary Supplement
The Convent is at once a still, almost silent thing, and a blistering human drama...Karnezis's great skill is in evoking the haunting beauty of lost places and souls... There is a strength and confidence to Karnezis's prose
The Times
Impressive... We witness justice and injustice, theological controversy, the politics of a tiny enclosed society, despair, cruelty, generosity, scandal, suspicion, and suicide, all told with immense verve and skill
Sunday Times
An impressive addition to the works of a master storyteller
Independent
This fragrant, fond and faintly otherworldly novel, with its final, poignant twist, is a memorable read
The Lady
Times Literary Supplement
The Convent is at once a still, almost silent thing, and a blistering human drama...Karnezis's great skill is in evoking the haunting beauty of lost places and souls... There is a strength and confidence to Karnezis's prose
The Times
Impressive... We witness justice and injustice, theological controversy, the politics of a tiny enclosed society, despair, cruelty, generosity, scandal, suspicion, and suicide, all told with immense verve and skill
Sunday Times
An impressive addition to the works of a master storyteller
Independent
This fragrant, fond and faintly otherworldly novel, with its final, poignant twist, is a memorable read
The Lady