Janet Rich Edwards

Canticle (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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A masterful debut novel following a spirited young woman's explorations of faith, agency, and love in thirteenth-century Bruges.

Aleys is sixteen years old and unusual: stubborn, bright, and prone to religious visions. She and her only friend, Finn, a young scholar, have been learning Latin together in secretbut just as she thinks their connection might become something more, everything unravels. When her father promises her in marriage to a merchant she doesn't love, she runs away from home, finding shelter among the beguines, a fiercely independent community of religious women who refuse to answer to the church.

Among these hardworking and strong-willed women, Aleys glimpses for the first time the joys of belonging: a life of song, meaning, and friendship in the markets and along the canals of Bruges. But forces both mystical and political are at work. Illegal translations of scripture, the women's independence, and a sudden rash of miracles all draw the attention of an ambitious bishopand bring Aleys and those around her into ever-increasing danger, a danger that will push Aleys to a new understanding of love and sacrifice.

Grounded in the little-told stories of medieval womenmystics, saints, anchoresses, and beguinesand introducing a major new talent, Canticle is a luminous work of historical fiction, vividly evoking a world on the verge of transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Spiegel & Grau
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781966302063
• Artikelnr.: 72830075

Autorenporträt

Janet Rich Edwards is a professor of epidemiology at Harvard University and works in the Division of Women's Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital. A graduate of GrubStreet's Novel Incubator program, she lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.