{"product_id":"q-book-luther-blissett-9780151010639","title":"Q","description":"[\u003ci\u003eQ\u003c\/i\u003e] is a historical novel of the grand and sweeping sort, one that aims to capture not a life or a moment, but an era of pivotal importance.-\u003ci\u003e-Washington Post Book World \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt is hard to do better than this vivid, terrifying portrait of a survivor of the Protestant Reformation . . . The characters in Q bleed real blood, blood that was still soaking Europe in the trenches of World War I, and the firestorms of World War I. -- The New Republic \u003cbr\u003eWhile sixteenth-century Europe is devastated by the wars of religion following the Reformation, a young theology student adopts the cause of the heretics and the disinherited. Our hero, an Anabaptist who travels under many names, and his enemy, Q, a papal informer and heretic hunter, play a game in which no moves are forbidden. Across the chessboard of Europe, from the German plains to the flourishing Dutch cities and south to Venice, what begins as a struggle to reveal each other's identity eventually becomes part of a much greater mission: total annihilation of the enemy. \u003cbr\u003ePart thriller, part novel of ideas, \u003ci\u003eQ\u003c\/i\u003e is as richly imagined as Umberto Eco's \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e or Iain Pears's \u003ci\u003eAn Instance of the Fingerpost\u003c\/i\u003e and as subversively political as Michel Houellebecq's \u003ci\u003eAtomised.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe four pseudonymous authors of \u003ci\u003eQ\u003c\/i\u003e live in Bologna, Italy. Their website is www.wumingfoundation.com. \u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside \u003cbr\u003eQ . . . is as mysterious as a miracle and hot as a burning heretic. -- The Raleigh News and Observer \u003cbr\u003eThis is a big book and a big canvas . . . The panorama is big and bloody and breathtaking: a crush of colour and crowds, exotic locations and war. -- \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49540335141137,"sku":"GOR006632687","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49555815530769,"sku":"GOR003236677","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49789703880977,"sku":"CIN0151010633G","price":5.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50138681245969,"sku":"CIN0151010633VG","price":5.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51734778577169,"sku":"CIN0151010633A","price":5.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0151010633.jpg?v=1750908696","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/q-book-luther-blissett-9780151010639","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}