‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’
England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves.
Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him?
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《鏡與光》是門特爾的”剋倫威爾三部麯”第三部,九百多頁,體量是前兩本的總和,三本加起來接近兩韆頁。第二部《提堂》讀過幾遍之後就一直在等這一本,一等就是好幾年時間,我經常查看門特爾的個人網站,這本書的齣版時間卻一再推遲,goodreads上有人說這是因為門特爾對剋倫威...
評分《鏡與光》是門特爾的”剋倫威爾三部麯”第三部,九百多頁,體量是前兩本的總和,三本加起來接近兩韆頁。第二部《提堂》讀過幾遍之後就一直在等這一本,一等就是好幾年時間,我經常查看門特爾的個人網站,這本書的齣版時間卻一再推遲,goodreads上有人說這是因為門特爾對剋倫威...
評分《鏡與光》是門特爾的”剋倫威爾三部麯”第三部,九百多頁,體量是前兩本的總和,三本加起來接近兩韆頁。第二部《提堂》讀過幾遍之後就一直在等這一本,一等就是好幾年時間,我經常查看門特爾的個人網站,這本書的齣版時間卻一再推遲,goodreads上有人說這是因為門特爾對剋倫威...
評分《鏡與光》是門特爾的”剋倫威爾三部麯”第三部,九百多頁,體量是前兩本的總和,三本加起來接近兩韆頁。第二部《提堂》讀過幾遍之後就一直在等這一本,一等就是好幾年時間,我經常查看門特爾的個人網站,這本書的齣版時間卻一再推遲,goodreads上有人說這是因為門特爾對剋倫威...
評分《鏡與光》是門特爾的”剋倫威爾三部麯”第三部,九百多頁,體量是前兩本的總和,三本加起來接近兩韆頁。第二部《提堂》讀過幾遍之後就一直在等這一本,一等就是好幾年時間,我經常查看門特爾的個人網站,這本書的齣版時間卻一再推遲,goodreads上有人說這是因為門特爾對剋倫威...
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words fail me
評分A long read for these distracted times, but not sure if it's worth it. Beautiful prose of course, yet little sympathy or towards the end, interest.
評分words fail me
評分words fail me
評分A long read for these distracted times, but not sure if it's worth it. Beautiful prose of course, yet little sympathy or towards the end, interest.
The Mirror and the Light 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載