Most ebook files are in PDF format, so you can easily read them using various software such as Foxit Reader or directly on the Google Chrome browser.
Some ebook files are released by publishers in other formats such as .awz, .mobi, .epub, .fb2, etc. You may need to install specific software to read these formats on mobile/PC, such as Calibre.
Please read the tutorial at this link: https://ebookbell.com/faq
We offer FREE conversion to the popular formats you request; however, this may take some time. Therefore, right after payment, please email us, and we will try to provide the service as quickly as possible.
For some exceptional file formats or broken links (if any), please refrain from opening any disputes. Instead, email us first, and we will try to assist within a maximum of 6 hours.
EbookBell Team
4.8
54 reviewsBarry Unsworth evokes a distant past filled with deception and mystery, whose racial, tribal, and religious tensions are still with us today.
Italy in the Middle Ages. Latin and Greek, Arab and Jew live together in precarious harmony in the kingdom of Palermo. Thurstan Beauchamp, a Christian son of a Norman knight, works for Yusuf, a Muslim Arab, in the palace’s central finance office. They manage blackmail, bribes and the gathering of secret information for the king. As the peace and prosperity of the kingdom is threatened, internally and externally, Thurstan is dispatched to uncover the conspiracies brewing against his king.
"A richly imagined novel of the Middle Ages, filled with questions of race, God, and fidelity, from the Booker Prize-winning Unsworth (The Song of the Kings, 2003, etc.)... Unsworth’s luscious history is ripe territory for a dialogue on the ever-present struggle against intolerance, a seemingly inevitable human frailty." - Kirkus Reviews
Barry Unsworth was born in London. He published 17 novels, and is best known for his historical fiction. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning once for the 1992 novel Sacred Hunger. In the last years of his life he lived in Perugia, a city in the Umbria region of Italy, with his second wife. His novel After Hannibal is a fictionalised description of his efforts at settlement in the Italian countryside.
