Paul Wilson - Someone to Watch Over Me
| Conditie | redelijk [1e pag. stempel ex-eigenaar, pagina's in de loop der jaren verkleurd] |
| Aantal pagina`s | 244 |
| Uitgavejaar | 2001 |
| Uitgegeven door | Granta Books |
| Kaft | bordeauxrode hardcover met goudopdruk op de rug |
| Stofomslag | ja |
| ISBN | 9781862074194 |
| Code [intern] | ELS19 |
Beschrijving boek
Brendan Moon is a fraud specialist. He is paid to disprove miracles. He has an enviable record of exposing fraudulent evangelists and the simple wishful thinking of bereaved lovers.
Then a catastrophic event in a small Lancashire town makes the television news. As the full horror of the situations unfolds, ancient parchments inscribed in Hebrew are witnessed falling from the sky, and Brendan Moon is called in to investigate. The eighteen parchments are translated as ‘letters from God’ - philosophical meditations that seem to respond to the pain and bewilderment being felt by the town in the aftermath of the tragedy.
Brendan’s investigations into the mystery of the parchments take him to unexpected and unsettling places: wartime Germany, a boxing gym in a deprived part of Manchester, and a former colony for the feebleminded; they also lead him into the homes and secrets of the village’s inhabitants. He begins to piece together the extraordinary story behind the documents. And gradually, for the first time since the death of his own child, which robbed him of any faith in a grand design for the universe, Brendan Moon begins to wonder.
