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The Four Wise Men
Michel Tournier
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Description for The Four Wise Men
Paperback. There, this fourth wise man learns the recipe from a fellow prisoner, and learns of the existence and meaning of Jesus. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Num Pages: 268 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their personal odysseys to Bethlehem--and audaciously imagines a fourth, "the eternal latecomer"' whose story of hardship and redemption is the most moving and instructive of all. Prince of Mangalore and son of an Indian maharajah, Taor has tasted an exquisite confection, rachat loukoum, and is so taken by the flavor that he sets out to recover the recipe. His quest takes him across Western Asia and finally lands him in Sodom, where he is imprisoned in a salt mine. There, this ... Read more
Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their personal odysseys to Bethlehem--and audaciously imagines a fourth, "the eternal latecomer"' whose story of hardship and redemption is the most moving and instructive of all. Prince of Mangalore and son of an Indian maharajah, Taor has tasted an exquisite confection, rachat loukoum, and is so taken by the flavor that he sets out to recover the recipe. His quest takes him across Western Asia and finally lands him in Sodom, where he is imprisoned in a salt mine. There, this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801857331
SKU
V9780801857331
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Ref
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About Michel Tournier
Born in 1924, Michel Tournier studied philosophy and then became a journalist and a writer. He is the author of several novels, including The Ogre, Friday, and Gemini, also available in paperback from Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for The Four Wise Men
The Four Wise Men struck me as a true masterpiece.
Lewis Jones New Statesman A work of extraordinary clarity.
Jonathan Baumbach New York Times Book Review There is a real touch of magic in this novel. The Atlantic This is a novel of high achievement. Tournier works to assert an apologia of Christianity and its underlying message of ... Read more
Lewis Jones New Statesman A work of extraordinary clarity.
Jonathan Baumbach New York Times Book Review There is a real touch of magic in this novel. The Atlantic This is a novel of high achievement. Tournier works to assert an apologia of Christianity and its underlying message of ... Read more