Pilgermann Av Russell Hoban

<p><b>''Superb ... <i>Pilgermann</i> is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. <i>Pilgermann </i>is a mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades, following its unlikely hero and those he meets on a journey of picaresque horror across a Europe of hatreds, visions and a desperate wish for salvation.<br><br>''A dark treatise on the mysterious nature of things ... The world according to <i>Pilgermann</i> is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch, pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel'' <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>''A strange and beautiful work'' <i>Evening Standard</i></p>