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A Stolen Tongue - SHERI HOLMAN. International debut sensation. Translated into thirteen languages. “Part rollicking historical potboiler, part theological mystery Holman [has a] manic, spiritually inquisitive imagination.”. -- Entertainment Weekly. “Holman seduces you into a world of priests, rogues, saints, a world bright with horizon, wonder, piety.  · A STOLEN TONGUE. by Sheri Holman ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, In an unusual, probing debut, 15th-century Palestine is the destination for a group of German pilgrims, who arrive gratefully in the Holy Land after a perilous sea voyage, only to lose much of what they hold most dear. Fishing the corpse of a fellow pilgrim from a harbor in Crete to give him a Christian burial, Friar Felix Author: Sheri Holman. Sheri Holman is the author of A Stolen Tongue, which was translated into thirteen languages; The Dress Lodger, which has sold over , copies nationally and was named a New York Times Notable Book and one of the New York Public Library’s “Books to Remember”; and The Mammoth Cheese, short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction and named a San Francisco Chronicle and Publishers Weekly Book of .

Buy a cheap copy of A Stolen Tongue book by Sheri Holman. The narrator of Sheri Holman's debut novel, A Stolen Tongue is Father Felix Fabri, a 15th-century monk on a pilgrimage to Alexandria, Egypt, to visit his wife, Free shipping over $ If Clive Barker ever writes a historical novel, he'll be hard pressed to invent horrors more lurid than the rotting corpses and dangling viscera that grace, so to speak, this lurid and fascinating second novel from Holman (A Stolen Tongue, ). Teenaged Gustine (the —dress lodger—), a prostitute whose "master" garbs her in finery in order to attract the lust of well-paying gentry. ‎ "Part rollicking historical potboiler, part theological mystery" from the acclaimed author of The Dress Lodger and The Mammoth Cheese (Entertainment Weekly). A riveting mystery that recalls the work of Umberto Eco and Barry Unsworth, A Stolen Tongue .

“Part rollicking historical potboiler, part theological mystery” from the acclaimed author of The Dress Lodger and The Mammoth Cheese (Entertainment Weekly). A riveting mystery that recalls the work of Umberto Eco and Barry Unsworth, A Stolen Tongue is the captivating debut novel that launched critically acclaimed author Sheri Holman’s literary career. In , Father Felix Fabri. A riveting mystery that recalls the work of Umberto Eco and Barry Unsworth, A Stolen Tongue is the captivating debut novel that launched critically acclaimed author Sheri Holman's literary career. In , Father Felix Fabri sails from Germany to Mount Sinai on a pilgrimage to venerate the relics of Saint Katherine of Alexandria. A riveting mystery that recalls the work of Umberto Eco and Barry Unsworth, A Stolen Tongue is the captivating debut novel that launched critically acclaimed author Sheri Holman’s literary career. In , Father Felix Fabri sails from Germany to Mount Sinai on a pilgrimage to venerate the relics of Saint Katherine of Alexandria.