The Kingdom av Emmanuel Carrere

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<p><b>''This is a brilliant, shocking book ... also witty, painfully self-critical and humane ... it is a work of great literature'' Tim Whitmarsh,<i> Guardian<br></i><br>''<i>The Kingdom</i>, already a huge bestseller in France, is thrilling, magnificent and strange'' Bryan Appleyard, <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>The sensational international bestseller from one of France''s most f¿d writers - an epic novel telling the story of Christianity as it has never been told before, and one man''s crisis of faith.<br><br></b>Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a sign of something enormous. Like a contagion, the story will spread over the city, the country and, eventually, the world. Emmanuel Carr¿''s astonishing historical epic tells the story of the mysterious beginnings of Christianity, bringing to life a distant, primeval past