"Fifteenth-century Russia. It is a time of plague and pestilence, and a young healer, skilled in the art of herbs and remedies, finds himself overcome with grief and guilt when he fails to save the one he holds closest to his heart. Leaving behind his village, his possessions, and his name, he sets out on a quest for redemption, penniless and alone"--Dust jacket.
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"Fifteenth-century Russia. It is a time of plague and pestilence, and a young healer, skilled in the art of herbs and remedies, finds himself overcome with grief and guilt when he fails to save the one he holds closest to his heart. Leaving behind his village, his possessions, and his name, he sets out on a quest for redemption, penniless and alone"--Dust jacket.
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FINE in NEAR FINE jacket. First English Edition. 365 pp. 8vo, black paper over board hard covers, gilt spine lettering. Exceedingly clean and sharp; Dust Jacket shows some trivial and inevitable rubbing to tips and a short tear to rear tail, very crisp and bright otherwise. 'Not at all a typical historical novel. It uses conscious and outrageous anachronisms; it is funny, subversive and vivid in its evocation of medieval life in Russia and the Middle East; and it plants questions about faith, irony, self-deception and integrity in the style of the greatest Russian fictions. '-Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.
