Names of the Women

Names of the Women
Jeet Thayil
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 192pg
24 Mar 2022 UK
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9781529113822
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From the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles were suppressed, reduced or erased in the Gospels. ' Dazzling, smouldering . . . It is literally a tale that' s waited a thousand years to be told. ' MARLON JAMES, WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZENames of the Women begins with Christ on the cross addressing Mary of Magdala, asking her to bear witness to his death. As the novel unfolds, it tells the stories of fifteen women whose lives overlapped with the life of Christ. Lydia and Assia, Martha and Mary of Bethany, Junia the Widow of Jerusalem, Susanna the Barren, Ariamma the Canaanite, and others whose names have been spoken only in passing or not at all. Women who stayed with Christ through the crucifixion, when his disciples had abandoned him, and who spread his radical message - one that made them equals and a profound threat to power within the church. Together, the voices of the women dare us to reimagine the story of the New Testament in a way it has never before been told. *A ' BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN*
Names of The Women unerases the erased, gives voice to the silenced, restores the lost, and brings dazzling, smouldering life to stories long left for dead. It is literally a tale that' s waited a thousand years to be told. -- Marlon James, Winner of the 2015 Booker Prize Names of the Women is an extraordinary work of restoration, playful invention, and stark beauty. In Jeet Thayil' s skilled telling the gospel stories, which have lasted so long, spread so far, and become so dulled by familiarity, have their deep original strangeness returned to them. -- Chris Power An electrifying new treatment of the old story; haunting, mysterious, intelligent. -- Tessa Hadley Achingly beautiful. Powerful, poetic and profoundly feminist. -- Jennifer Croft
JEET THAYIL was born in 1959 into a Syrian Christian family in Kerala, and educated at Jesuit schools in Bombay, Hong Kong and New York. Kerala' s Syrian Christians trace their church to St. Thomas, who arrived on the Malabar coast around 50 AD and converted thirteen Hindu families to Christianity, or so tradition has it. Jeet' s grandmother, Chachiamma Jacob, was the last of the family who recited from memory the hour-long service in Aramaic, Malayalam and Sanskrit that still defines the faith.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781529113822
Published: 24 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 192

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