

- French Authors, Jewish Christians, Biography, Christian civilization
"A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the world. Gripped by the tale of a Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrère revisits the story of the early Church in his latest work.
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Epic, prestige, grave and open-ended.
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Emmanuel Carrère
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Farrar Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780241200575
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Emmanuel Carrère est un écrivain, scénariste et réalisateur français. ---------- Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter and film director.
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