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The Convert Stefan Hertmans

The Convert By Stefan Hertmans

The Convert by Stefan Hertmans

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Summary

In this startlingly contemporary novel, Hertmans follows in her footsteps as the lovers flee through France together, pursued by crusading knights, and recounts her dazzling journey full of love and hardship, courage and hate, as she travels on towards Jerusalem alone.

Jewish National Book Awards 2020 Finalist

The Convert Summary

The Convert by Stefan Hertmans

A brilliant reconstruction of an incredible journey across medieval Europe to Egypt, and an untold story of forbidden love.

'Enthralling... A spectacular tale told with spectacular accomplishment' Sunday Times, Books of the Year

In the small village in Provence where Stefan Hertmans has made his home, people have long spoken of an ancient pogrom and hidden treasure. Then, at the end of the nineteenth century, an extraordinary collection of Jewish documents was found in a synagogue in Cairo.

Hertmans has based The Convert on these historical sources, tracing the life of a young Christian noblewoman who abandoned everything for the love of a rabbi's son. In this startlingly contemporary novel, Hertmans follows in her footsteps as the lovers flee through France together, pursued by crusading knights, and recounts her dazzling journey full of love and hardship, courage and hate, as she travels on towards Jerusalem alone.

Jewish National Book Awards 2020 Finalist

The Convert Reviews

Enthralling... A spectacular tale told with spectacular accomplishment -- Peter Kemp * Sunday Times, *Books of the Year* *
[An] astonishing tale... The main narrative is told in a pressing, insistent present tense and Hertmans conjures up the medieval world with the same sensuous detailing that was so effective in War and Turpentine... tense and compelling... The Covert is...extraordinarily good * Sunday Times *
An imaginative flight, full of darkness and light, lively characters, life-altering conflicts, violence and kindness -- Valerie Martin * New York Times *
Written in an often breathless, continuous present tense, Hamoutal's experiences are visualised following Herman's own groudbreaking researches... David McKay's translation is as brilliant as it is frequently brutal, and intermittently lyrical * Jewish Chronicle *
Nearly a millennium later, Hamoutal has been remembered and honored -- Sam Sacks * Wall Street Journal *

About Stefan Hertmans

Stefan Hertmans is the prizewinning author of many literary works, including poetry, novels, essays, plays, short stories and a handbook on the history of art. He has taught at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, at the Sorbonne, and at the Universities of Vienna and Berlin. His first novel to be translated into English, War and Turpentine, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, and was chosen as a book of the year in The Times, Sunday Times, and The Economist, and as one of the ten best books of the year in the New York Times.

Additional information

GOR010803586
9781784706982
1784706981
The Convert by Stefan Hertmans
Stefan Hertmans
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
20200903
304
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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