{"product_id":"9780141981154","title":"The Kingdom","description":"\u003cp\u003e'This is a brilliant, shocking book ... also witty, painfully self-critical and humane ... it is a work of great literature' Tim Whitmarsh, Guardian\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e'The Kingdom, already a huge bestseller in France, is thrilling, magnificent and strange' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sensational international bestseller from one of France's most fêted writers - an epic novel telling the story of Christianity as it has never been told before, and one man's crisis of faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCorinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a sign of something enormous. Like a contagion, the story will spread over the city, the country and, eventually, the world. Emmanuel Carrère's astonishing historical epic tells the story of the mysterious beginnings of Christianity, bringing to life a distant, primeval past of strange sects, apocalyptic beliefs and political turmoil. In doing so Carrère, once himself a fervent believer, questions his own faith, asks why we believe in resurrection, and what it means. The Kingdom is his masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An utterly brilliant book' Catherine Nixey, The Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49642805952760,"sku":"EB_LI0700_E02-06_SYDNEY","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780141981154-1_a34cc6a1-6622-4455-b4e8-e6748bfe5b4f.jpg?v=1791532756","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780141981154","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}