Doctor Copernicus (Revolutions Trilogy #1)

Doctor Copernicus (Revolutions Trilogy #1)

by John Banville
Doctor Copernicus (Revolutions Trilogy #1)

Doctor Copernicus (Revolutions Trilogy #1)

by John Banville

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Overview

The classic novel by "Irish master" (New Yorker) and Booker Prize–winner John Banville brings to life the dramatic and surprising world of sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and the theory that would shatter the medieval view of the universe.

Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland, a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence. For, in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks “the secret music of the universe” poses a most devastating threat.

"A tour de force… Exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent of the late medieval world." —The Times

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781335145895
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Publication date: 02/13/2024
Edition description: Original
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 1,078,229
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

JOHN BANVILLE was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of numerous novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize, and the DI Quirke novels written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain’s most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin.

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Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has grim gist of seeing people's souls.
—(Don DeLillo)

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