Company of Liars
by Karen Maitland
453 pages· ISBN 9780385341691
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EMBARK ON A TURBULENT JOURNEY THROUGH A RAVAGED COUNTRYSIDE... WITH ONLY LIARS FOR COMPANY.
In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales-- an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama.
The years is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them.
Each member of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the group's leader, the Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller...from the strange silent child called Narigorn to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. None are what they seems. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all--propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw coming.
Magical, heart-quickening, and raw, Company of Liars is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.
In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales-- an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama.
The years is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them.
Each member of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the group's leader, the Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller...from the strange silent child called Narigorn to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. None are what they seems. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all--propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw coming.
Magical, heart-quickening, and raw, Company of Liars is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.
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