Bruegel Boy

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Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTHONE OF THE TIMES BEST HISTORICAL FICTION NOVELS OF 2025Inthe summer of 1566 an infernoof political rebellion and image-smashing, the Beeldenstorm, sweptacross Flanders and Holland; young Gillis Vervloet,model and muse to artist Pieter Bruegel, almost didn't survive.Morethan sixty years later, in the Saarland forest, Gil wants only to enter themonastery of St Bartolomeus andlive out his days in peace, but first he must find their long-lost statue of StMichael. And to prove he is not a heretic, Gil must also account for his lifewith Bruegel, who painted a tense path through the artistic riches,intellectual ferment and explosive religious politics of the Low Countries. Ashe writes of his passionate vocation for the priesthood and impossible love forDorothea, his outlaw brother Roeland and radical priest-mentor Pater Paulus,Gil's hard-won understanding must show him where to seek St Michael, and savehim from the Inquisition.TheBruegel Boy is a profound exploration of love,brotherhood, vocation and the power of art to transform lives but also divideand even destroy them.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-06
Mått156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt603 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor420
FörlagHolland House Books
ISBN9781739104771

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EmmaDarwin's debut novel, The Mathematics of Love, is probably the only bookever to be nominated for both the Commonwealth Writers Best First Book and theRomantic Novelists' Association Book of the Year, among other prizes. Hersecond novel, A Secret Alchemy, was a Sunday Times bestseller;her most recent book, This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin, is amemoir of disastrously failing to write fiction about her famous ancestor'sfamily. She currently teaches for Oxford University and Goldsmiths, mentorswriters, and is the author of Get Started in Writing Historical Fictionand her well-known blog, This Itch of Writing. She grew up in London -with interludes in Manhattan and Brussels, where her lifelong love of PieterBruegel the Elder was born - and still lives there.

THE TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH NOVEMBERIt is a joy to be immersed in Emma Darwin's historicalfiction. Antonia Senior, The Times The novel is a profound exploration of humanity, love,brotherhood, vocation, loss and reconciliation. It is undoubtedly an astoundingachievement. Carol McGrath, The Historical Novel Society Emma Darwin... proves conclusively that she is a richchronicler of the human condition. Barry Forshaw