Bibliograph

The convert, Stefan Hertmans ; translated from the Dutch by David McKay

Type

Label

The convert, Stefan Hertmans ; translated from the Dutch by David McKay

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The convert

Oclc number

1107130598

Responsibility statement

Stefan Hertmans ; translated from the Dutch by David McKay

Summary

"The Middle Ages have just begun when Vigdis Adelaïs, a young woman from a prosperous French family, falls in love with David Todros, a student at the city's yeshiva, and the son of a rabbi. To be together, they must flee their city, Vigdis renouncing a life of privilege and comfort. Pursued by her father's knights and in constant danger of betrayal, the lovers embark on a dangerous journey to the south of France, only to find their brief happiness destroyed by the vicious wave of anti-Semitism that sweeps Europe with the onset of the First Crusade. Stefan Hertmans meticulously retraces Vigdis's epic journey, first across France and then beyond, to Palermo and the Middle East. Blending fact and fiction, and with immense imagination and stylistic ingenuity, he painstakingly imagines her terrible trials, bringing the Middle Ages to life, and illuminating a chaotic world of passion, hate, love, and death"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Mount Jupiter -- Rouen -- Flight -- Narbonne -- Moniou -- The crossing -- Cairo -- Nájera -- Cambridge -- The treasure of Monieux

Target audience

adult

Classification