โ Scribed by Carlson, Kristina
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Cover; Title Page; Epigraph; Contents; A Sunday in November; I; II; III; IV; V; A Stranger in August; I; II; III; IV; V; At the Anchor; I; II; III; IV; V; The Second Advent; I; II; III; IV; V; In Spring; Also from Peirene Press; About the Author and Translators; Copyright.;A postmodern Victorian novel about faith, knowledge and our inner needs. The late 1870s, the Kentish village of Downe. The villagers gather in church one rainy Sunday. Only Thomas Davies stays away. The eccentric loner, father of two and a grief-stricken widower, works as a gardener for the notorious naturalist, Charles Darwin. He shuns religion. But now Thomas needs answers. What should he believe in? And why should he continue to live? 'The collective consiousness in this novel is an amazing choir: Carlson makes the souls of Downe Parish sing.' Helsingin Sanomat 'Carlson writes beaut.
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