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- ISBN
- 0151010633
- EAN
- 9780151010639
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Hardback
- Release Title
- Q
- Artist
- Blissett, Luther
- Brand
- N/A
- Colour
- N/A
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Q
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / General, Historical
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1517 Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, and a dance of death begins between a radical Anabaptist with many names and a loyal papal spy, known mysteriously as "Q." In this brilliantly conceived literary thriller set in the chaos of the Reformation-an age devastated by wars of religion-a young theology student adopts the cause of heretics and the disinherited and finds himself pursued by a relentless papal informer and heretic-hunter. What begins as a personal struggle to reveal each others' identities becomes a mission that can only end in death.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151010633
ISBN-13
9780151010639
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4496558
Product Key Features
Book Title
Q
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / General, Historical
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
9in.
Item Height
0.8in.
Item Width
6in.
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq4862.L47q213 2004
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Rich religious history is turned into bloated, tedious fiction in this Reformation-age epic produced by four anonymous writers lurking behind a pseudonym. In 1517, Martin Luther nails his 95 theses to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral. In 1525, a one-time theological student, a radical Anabaptist who goes under a number of names over the course of the narrative, but who is initially called Gustav Metzger, pulls off the first of a number of hairbreadth escapes from heretic hunters keen to spill the blood of any would-be supporter of Luther. For the next 30 years, even as Protestantism slowly makes inroads across Europe, Metzger is tracked by a papal spy who, traveling incognito under the eponymous moniker Q, keeps his boss apprised while he and his compatriots attempt to crush the movement on behalf of the Vatican before the schism widens. Needless to say, they fail. Translator Whiteside has done the best he could with the material: stripped-down chapters breathlessly composed of short, snappy paragraphs ("The girl smiles. She's extremely beautiful") alternate with epistolary passages given a faux-historical gloss. Speech anachronisms abound throughout, especially when events are related by Metzger and company (" 'What the fuck did you say? What? So you're not dead, but you scare me anyway, pal, you scare me'"), and most of the characters sound so alike that not only do they remain lifeless on the page, they are often indistinguishable from one another. A good amount of historical research is lumped throughout, but the period stylings are wooden and the story never gains enough momentum to carry readers along., The story of Q begins with the mystery surrounding the author(s). Luther Blissett, the "author" of Q is the name of a Jamaican soccer player who played for AC Milan in the early l980s. He was victimized by Italian fans, whose racist and nasty comments caused his career to take a dive. This hapless fellow inspired a group of Italian artists to appropriate his name and attach it to all manner of projects. There are Luther Blissetts writing, drawing, and carrying out elaborate hoaxes all over the world. Four young Italians in Bologna wrote Q in the mid 1990s. It remains a bestseller in Italy and has become a cult hit throughout Europe.Q is set at the time of the Reformation. After Luther hangs his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Church, nothing is ever the same in the hallowed halls of Christianity. One of the sects which sprang up during the Reformation was the Anabaptists, Christians who discredited infant baptism and believed that the Bible was the only rule for faith and life. Q follows the adventures of a student of Thomas Munzer, Anabaptist and leader of the abortive Peasants' Revolt of 1524-25, who goes under many names, the first of which is Gustav Metzger, and Q, a papal informer. These two travel throughout Europe, trying to suss out each other's identity, sending letters to Munzer and to the Pope, making friends and enemies, hating each other's deeply felt convictions. Metzger is staying one step ahead of the heretic hunters, bent on destroying all supporters of Luther.The translation is rickety, at best. There are long, sonorous passages filled with the formal language of the times, and then a jarring change to modern slang. "On the point of death they all denied everything that had been extorted from them with torture: small consolation, and I don't know how many were able to die in peace because of it... It was November or December 1531, around the time Lienhard Jost kicked the bucket." There is a tremendous amount of scholarship contained in the novel and the blend of fact and fiction allows room for intrigue, politics, betrayal, and that ever-familiar conundrum of terror in the name of religion. At over 750 pages, it requires a great deal of patience and attention on the part of the reader, not all of which is richly rewarded. A final cavil: Wittenberg is misspelled in the jacket copy., PRAISE FOR Q "Imagine Umberto Eco's knack for the swashbuckling thriller of ideas crossed with an artful touch of the Le CarrÉs, and you have a fair idea of the novel's mood. . . . As a historical blockbuster, it boasts pace, colour, excitement and suspense to spare. . . .Q works like a charm." -THE INDEPENDENT (LONDON) "This 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.The sheer weight of its authors' historical research provides a convincing backdrop for the fictional heroes." -THE TIMES (LONDON) "An extraordinary historical adventure of faith and rebellion, thirty years of fleeing, intrigues, and slaughters in the first half of the 16th century in the Saxony of the Iron Knights, and in the Rome of the Popes." -LA REPUBBLICA ( I TALY ), PRAISE FOR Q "Imagine Umberto Eco's knack for the swashbuckling thriller of ideas crossed with an artful touch of the Le Carrs, and you have a fair idea of the novel's mood. . . . As a historical blockbuster, it boasts pace, colour, excitement and suspense to spare. . . .Q works like a charm." --THE INDEPENDENT (LONDON) "This 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.The sheer weight of its authors' historical research provides a convincing backdrop for the fictional heroes." --THE TIMES (LONDON) "An extraordinary historical adventure of faith and rebellion, thirty years of fleeing, intrigues, and slaughters in the first half of the 16th century in the Saxony of the Iron Knights, and in the Rome of the Popes." --LA REPUBBLICA ( I TALY ), PRAISE FOR Q "Imagine Umberto Eco's knack for the swashbuckling thriller of ideas crossed with an artful touch of the Le Carrés, and you have a fair idea of the novel's mood. . . . As a historical blockbuster, it boasts pace, colour, excitement and suspense to spare. . . .Q works like a charm." --THE INDEPENDENT (LONDON) "This 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.The sheer weight of its authors' historical research provides a convincing backdrop for the fictional heroes." --THE TIMES (LONDON) "An extraordinary historical adventure of faith and rebellion, thirty years of fleeing, intrigues, and slaughters in the first half of the 16th century in the Saxony of the Iron Knights, and in the Rome of the Popes." --LA REPUBBLICA ( I TALY ), PRAISE FOR Q "Imagine Umberto Eco's knack for the swashbuckling thriller of ideas crossed with an artful touch of the Le Carrs, and you have a fair idea of the novel's mood. . . . As a historical blockbuster, it boasts pace, colour, excitement and suspense to spare. . . .Q works like a charm." -THE INDEPENDENT (LONDON) "This 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.The sheer weight of its authors' historical research provides a convincing backdrop for the fictional heroes." -THE TIMES (LONDON) "An extraordinary historical adventure of faith and rebellion, thirty years of fleeing, intrigues, and slaughters in the first half of the 16th century in the Saxony of the Iron Knights, and in the Rome of the Popes." -LA REPUBBLICA ( I TALY ), PRAISE FOR Q "Imagine Umberto Eco's knack for the swashbuckling thriller of ideas crossed with an artful touch of the Le Carr s, and you have a fair idea of the novel's mood. . . . As a historical blockbuster, it boasts pace, colour, excitement and suspense to spare. . . .Q works like a charm." -THE INDEPENDENT (LONDON) "This 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.The sheer weight of its authors' historical research provides a convincing backdrop for the fictional heroes." -THE TIMES (LONDON) "An extraordinary historical adventure of faith and rebellion, thirty years of fleeing, intrigues, and slaughters in the first half of the 16th century in the Saxony of the Iron Knights, and in the Rome of the Popes." -LA REPUBBLICA ( I TALY )
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"[Q] 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."--Washington Post Book World "It 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 II." -- The New Republic While 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. Part thriller, part novel of ideas, Q is as richly imagined as Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose or Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost and as subversively political as Michel Houellebecq's Atomised. The four pseudonymous authors of Q live in Bologna, Italy. Their website is www.wumingfoundation.com. Translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside "Q . . . is as mysterious as a miracle and hot as a burning heretic." -- The Raleigh News and Observer "This 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." -- The Times (London)
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-025034
Dewey Decimal
853/.92
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Pages
768 Pages
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