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It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment. But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which will transform what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death...
| ISBN | 0552997803 | | Pages | 283 | | ISBN13 | 9780552997805
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 204 | | Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Black Swan | | Previous ISBN | 9780552996365 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 199 | | Publication date | 02 Jan 1998 | | Width (mm) | 131 | | Non-book description | Re-numbered item (originally 055299636X) | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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