Fabien Marques (FR-IT)

which flips a writer’s maxim in making the mundane philosophical

This book is a lively thought experiment that deepens our understanding of how money is the driver of political power

Much like Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse

The Corner That Held Them Auks Fabien Marques (FR-IT)A favourite book of Jean Marie Dhur, selected for our 2021 Rewind. ~~~ The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this masterpiece of historical fiction re creates a world run by