an instance of the fingerpost by iain pears

Im Anschluss daran studierte er unter anderem Kunsthistorik und Literatur am Wadham und Wolfson College der Oxford University. Leben: Die Schulzeit absolvierte Pears an der Warwick School in Warwick. Iain Pears (* 1955 in Coventry, West Midlands) ist ein englischer Kunsthistoriker und Schriftsteller. Deserving of comparison to the works of John Fowles and Umberto Eco, Iain Pears's novel is an ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing until the very last page. With rights sold for record-breaking sums around the world, An Instance of the Fingerpost is destined to become a major international publishing event. Only one reveals the extraordinary truth. Each tells his own version of what happened. We hear the story of the death from four witnesses: an Italian physician intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion the son of an alleged Royalist traitor a master cryptographer who has worked for both Cromwell and the king and a renowned Oxford antiquarian. A fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Oxford is the intellectual seat of the country, a place of great scientific, religious, and political ferment. Charles II has been restored to the throne following years of civil war and Cromwell's short-lived republic. Lesetipp des Bouquinisten! Sehr guter Zustand.

An instance of the fingerpost by iain pears