- Crusades, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History
For power. For passion. For glory. The epic story of the knights templar.Born in 1150 to a noble family in the Kingdom of Western Gotaland, young Arn Magnusson is marked early on by a miraculous and fateful event.
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Epic, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Jan Guillou
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 366
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Harper, Orion
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- Swedish, English
- ISBN
- 9780061869891
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Swedish journalist and novelist. - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jan Guillou Guillou in 2024 Guillou in 2024 Born Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou 17 January 1944 (age 81) Södertälje, Sweden Occupation author, journalist Nationality Swedish, French Genre spy fiction, historical fiction, political thriller Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjɑːn ɡɪˈjuː], French: [ɡiju]; born 17 January 1944) is a French-Swedish author and journalist. Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist, most notably in 1973 when he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret, immoral and illegal intelligence organization in Sweden,
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