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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Spanning two thousand years, The Everlasting follows four characters whose struggles resonate across the centuries: an early Christian child martyr; a medieval monk on crypt duty in a church; a Medici princess of Moorish descent; and a contemporary field biologist conducting an illicit affair. Outsiders to a city dense with history, this quartet separated by time grapples with the physicality of bodies, the necessity for sacrifice, and the power of...