Pope Joan

出版者:Broadway Books

作者:Donna Woolfolk Cross

页数:432

出版时间:2009-6-9

价格:USD 16.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780307452368

A world-wide bestseller, major motion picture and upcoming "Director's Cut" TV mini-series exclusively for the U.S!

" Pope Joan has all the elements one wants in a historical drama–love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets. Cross has written an engaging book." –Los Angeles Times Book Review

For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not die–Pope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female ever to sit on the throne of St. Peter. Now in this riveting novel, Donna Woolfolk Cross paints a sweeping portrait of an unforgettable heroine who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot accept.

Brilliant and talented, young Joan rebels against medieval social strictures forbidding women to learn. When her brother is brutally killed during a Viking attack, Joan takes up his cloak–and his identity–and enters the monastery of Fulda. As Brother John Anglicus, Joan distinguishes herself as a great scholar and healer. Eventually, she is drawn to Rome, where she becomes enmeshed in a dangerous web of love, passion, and politics. Triumphing over appalling odds, she finally attains the highest office in Christendom–wielding a power greater than any woman before or since. But such power always comes at a price . . .

In this international bestseller, Cross brings the Dark Ages to life in all their brutal splendor and shares the dramatic story of a woman whose strength of vision led her to defy the social restrictions of her day.

读后感

读完后，又找出了电影《女教皇》来看。 果然书和电影都是一样的：我想看的是大悲恸，结果吃到嘴里的是小清新。 我承认自己对这个题材期待过高，我想看到的太多。 ——至少不能指望一段爱情就能喂饱我。 这世界是冷的、硬的，所以她才应该像一道光，明亮，并且温暖。虽然忽明...  

对她前半生的描述非常棒,吸引我想一口气看完，可到了她成年后的描述就非常的欠缺真实性了，唯一能说的就是，这是上帝的旨意，他接选了她。  

对她前半生的描述非常棒,吸引我想一口气看完，可到了她成年后的描述就非常的欠缺真实性了，唯一能说的就是，这是上帝的旨意，他接选了她。  

对她前半生的描述非常棒,吸引我想一口气看完，可到了她成年后的描述就非常的欠缺真实性了，唯一能说的就是，这是上帝的旨意，他接选了她。