Pilgermann by Russell Hoban Paperback Book 9780241485743

Superb Pilgermann is history metaphysics a tangle of mysteries profound and simple GuardianIt is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it Pilgermann is a mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades following its unlikely hero and those he meets on a journey of picaresque horror across a Europe of hatreds visions and a desperate wish for salvationA dark treatise on the mysterious nature of things The world according to Pilgermann is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch pilgrimage narrative allegory and the historical novel The New York Times Book ReviewA strange and beautiful work Evening Standard