num_pages: 242
description: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a novel set in sixteenth-century Europe about an obscure cleric who is preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe—while being haunted by his malevolent brother and threatened by the conspiracies raging around him and his ideas. Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence. For, in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks “the secret music of the universe” poses a most devastating threat.
language: English
title: Doctor Copernicus
titlecomplete: Doctor Copernicus  (The Revolutions Trilogy #1)
genres: 20th Century, Ireland, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Irish Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 927
series: The Revolutions Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage