Katherine J. Chen

Joan

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Produktbeschreibung

Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. And out of the chaos, an unlikely heroine is emerging. Reckless, steel-willed and brilliant, Joan has survived a childhood steeped in both joy and violence to claim an extraordinary - and fragile - position at the head of the French army. The battlefield and the royal court are full of dangers alike, and Joan finds herself under suspicion from all sides - as well as under threat from her own ambition. With unforgettably vivid characters, transporting settings, and action-packed storytelling, Joan is a thrilling epic, a triumph of historical fiction, as well as a feminist celebration of one remarkable - and remarkably real - woman who left an indelible mark on history. 'It is as if the author has crept inside a statue and breathed a soul into it, re-creating Joan of Arc as a woman for our time' Hilary Mantel

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 875508
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 151mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781399706124
• ISBN-10: 1399706128
• Artikelnr.: 63460142

Autorenporträt

Katherine J. Chen is the author of the novel Mary B. Her work has been published in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, and in the historical fiction anthology Stories from Suffragette City. She is a graduate of Princeton University and received her MFA from Boston University, where she was a senior teaching fellow and awarded the Florence Engel Randall Fiction Prize.

Rezensionen

A glorious, sweeping novel . . . Richly imagined, poignant and inspiring Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of ARIADNE