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A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom

ISBN 
9781784164188
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R275.00
Published 
June 2021
About the book: 
The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heart-breaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling.
 
Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them.
 
It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons. One with his father's violence in his blood. One who lives his mother's artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will change their fate. It is a beginning.
 
Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years - they will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From distant Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium to a life amongst the stars in the third. While the world will change around them, their destinies will remain the same. It must play out as foretold. It is written.
 
A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom is the extraordinary new novel from acclaimed writer John Boyne. Ambitious, far-reaching and mythic, it introduces a group of characters whose lives we will come to know and will follow through time and space until they reach their natural conclusion.
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About the Author

John Boyne is the author of fifteen novels for adults, six for younger readers, and a collection of short stories. His 2006 novel  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas  has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been adapted for cinema, theatre, ballet, and opera. His many international bestsellers include  The Heart's Invisible Furies and A Ladder to the Sky.  He has won four Irish Book Awards, including Author of the Year in 2022, along with a host of other international literary prizes. His novels are published in sixty languages.

Twitter: @JohnBoyneBooks
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