| Author: | Helen Dale | ISBN: | 9780648140702 |
| Publisher: | Ligature | Publication: | October 1, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Ligature First | Language: | English |
| Author: | Helen Dale |
| ISBN: | 9780648140702 |
| Publisher: | Ligature |
| Publication: | October 1, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Ligature First |
| Language: | English |
From the best-selling author of The Hand that Signed the Paper, winner of the Miles Franklin Award, comes an epic work of speculative fiction.
784 *ab urbe condita*—31 AD. Jerusalem sits uneasily in a Roman Empire that has seen an industrial revolution and now has cable news and flying machines—and rites and morals that are strange and repellent to the native people of Judaea.
A charismatic young leader is arrested after a riot in the Temple. He seems to be a man of peace, but among his followers are Zealots and dagger-men sworn to drive the Romans from the Holy Land.
As the city spirals into violence, the stage is set for a legal case that will shape the future—the trial of Yeshua Ben Yusuf. Intricately imagined and ferociously executed, *Kingdom of the Wicked* is a stunning alternative history and a story for our time.
From the best-selling author of The Hand that Signed the Paper, winner of the Miles Franklin Award, comes an epic work of speculative fiction.
784 *ab urbe condita*—31 AD. Jerusalem sits uneasily in a Roman Empire that has seen an industrial revolution and now has cable news and flying machines—and rites and morals that are strange and repellent to the native people of Judaea.
A charismatic young leader is arrested after a riot in the Temple. He seems to be a man of peace, but among his followers are Zealots and dagger-men sworn to drive the Romans from the Holy Land.
As the city spirals into violence, the stage is set for a legal case that will shape the future—the trial of Yeshua Ben Yusuf. Intricately imagined and ferociously executed, *Kingdom of the Wicked* is a stunning alternative history and a story for our time.
