My Nemesis
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From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma comes a tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its reverberations across the lives of two couples.
Charmaine Craig Boeken
Charmaine Craig creëert boeiende verhalen die zich verdiepen in de complexiteit van identiteit en familiegeschiedenis, geïnspireerd door persoonlijke ervaringen. Als faculteitslid creatief schrijven heeft ze een diepgaand begrip van narratieve vormen en de kunst van de alinea, die ze toepast in haar eigen evocatieve proza. Haar werk wordt geprezen om zijn rijke verkenning van menselijke verbindingen en zijn nauwgezette, artistieke opbouw.
Charmaine Craig was studying medieval history at Harvard when she first encountered the startling testimony of Grazida Lizier, a young woman tried by the Inquisition in 1320. Even after she was accepted into the MFA program at the University of California at Irvine, Craig found she couldn't stop thinking about the seven-hundred-year-old document and knew she had to write a novel based on it. The Good Men is the gripping, epic story of what happened when religious persecution turned Christian against Christian and neighbor against neighbor in Montaillou, a small village in south-west France. Three generations of characters are torn between desires for spiritual grace and fleshly pleasure. Historically accurate and pitch-perfect, The Good Men movingly dramatizes how relatively small, and at times barely comprehensible, differences in faith served as the impetus behind a tragedy of enormous proportions. Charmaine Craig reanimates questions of religious belief and fai