My Nemesis
- 208 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura
From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma comes a tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its reverberations across the lives of two couples.
Charmaine Craig Orden de los libros (cronológico)
Charmaine Craig crea narrativas cautivadoras que profundizan en las complejidades de la identidad y la historia familiar, inspirándose en experiencias personales. Como miembro del profesorado de escritura creativa, posee un profundo conocimiento de las formas narrativas y el arte del párrafo, que aplica a su propia prosa evocadora. Su obra es celebrada por su rica exploración de la conexión humana y su construcción meticulosa y artística.
Charmaine Craig was studying medieval history at Harvard when she first encountered the startling testimony of Grazida Lizier, a young woman tried by the Inquisition in 1320. Even after she was accepted into the MFA program at the University of California at Irvine, Craig found she couldn't stop thinking about the seven-hundred-year-old document and knew she had to write a novel based on it. The Good Men is the gripping, epic story of what happened when religious persecution turned Christian against Christian and neighbor against neighbor in Montaillou, a small village in south-west France. Three generations of characters are torn between desires for spiritual grace and fleshly pleasure. Historically accurate and pitch-perfect, The Good Men movingly dramatizes how relatively small, and at times barely comprehensible, differences in faith served as the impetus behind a tragedy of enormous proportions. Charmaine Craig reanimates questions of religious belief and fai