My Nemesis
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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 Knihy
Charmaine Craig sa venuje literárnemu umeniu a ako profesorka tvorivého písania sa zameriava na formy rozprávania a umenie odseku. Jej romány, inšpirované osobnými príbehmi a zasadené do historických súvislostí, skúmajú zložitosť rodinných väzieb a identity. Craig vnáša do svojich diel bohaté znalosti literatúry a cizeluje svoje príbehy s precíznosťou pre detail a hĺbku.
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