num_pages: 284
description: It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment.But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which will transform what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death...
language: English
title: Knowledge of Angels
titlecomplete: Knowledge of Angels
genres: Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Philosophy, Religion, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 1674
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Black Swan