An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

A national bestseller and one of the New York Public Library's Books to Remember, An Instance of the Fingerpost is a thrilling historical mystery from Iain Pears.

It is 1663, and England is wracked with intrigue and civil strife. When an Oxford don is murdered, it seems at first that the incident can have nothing to do with great matters of church and state.Yet, little is as it seems in this gripping novel, which dramatizes the ways in which witnesses can see the same events yet remember them falsely. Each of four narrators--a Venetian medical student, a young man intent on proving his late father innocent of treason, a cryptographer, and an archivist--fingers a different culprit.an erudite and entertaining tour de force. --People

Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio and The Portrait are also available from Riverhead Books.

Tim Pears was born in 1956, grew up in Devon, left school at sixteen, and had countless menial jobs before studying at the National Film and Television School. He is the author of eight novels, including In the Place of Fallen Leaves, which won the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award; In a Land of Plenty, which was made into a BBC series; and Landed, which won the MJA Open Book Award in 2011. Pears lives in Oxford, England, with his wife and childr

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ISBN 13	9780425167724
ISBN 10	0425167720
Titel	An Instance of the Fingerpost
Autor	Iain Pears
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	1999-03-01
Seitenanzahl	752
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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