Doctor copernicus

R$ 98,90

Sinopse

The first volume of John Banville’s Revolutions Trilogy and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Doctor Copernicus is a rich historical novel that explores the life of one of history’s greatest scientists. The work of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, shattered the medieval view of the universe and led to the formulation of the image of the solar system we know today. Here his life is powerfully evoked in a novel that offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence, haunted by a malevolent brother and baffled by the conspiracies that rage around him and his ideas while he searches for the secret of life.‘Banville is superb . . .there are not many historical novels of which it can be said that they illuminate both the time that forms their subject matter and the time in which they are read: Doctor Copernicus is among the very best of them’ – The EconomistNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

Participantes

Autor: John Banville

Autor

JOHN BANVILLE

John Banville
Nome cotado para o prêmio Nobel de Literatura, John Banville é autor de uma obra em que se combinam dicção exuberante, marcada pelo lirismo e por jogos de linguagem, com enredos complexos. Nascido em Wexford (Irlanda) em dezembro de 1945, ainda jovem declarou que a faculdade teria pouco benefício para ele. Seu maior sucesso O mar (2005) lhe rendeu o Man Booker Prize. Sob o pseudônimo de Benjamin Black, publicou ainda mais sete romances policiais que compõem uma intrincada teia de adultérios envolvendo o protagonista. Em seu título mais recente, Ancient lights (2012), Banville narra a história de Alexander Cleave, ator fracassado que vive de recordações.