Geraldine Brooks
Year Of Wonders - A Novel Of The Plague
Paperback
(Penguin Books March 15, 2002)
, Later Printing edition
Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2002-5-1 Pages: 308 Publisher:. Penguin WThen an infected bolt of cloth carries plagae from London toan isolated mountain viilage. a housemaid named Anna Frith emergesas an unlikely heroine and healer ThroUgh Anna s eyes we followthe story of the plague vear. I666. as her fellow viliagers makean extraordinan choice: convinced by a visionary young. ministerthey elect to quarantine themselves within the village boundariesto arrest the spread of the disease But as death reaches intoevery household.faith flays When villagers turn.. from prayers tomurderous witch-hunting. Anna must confront the deaths of family.. the disintegration of her community. and the lure of illicit love.As she struggles to survive. a year of plague becomes instead arumsmirabilis. a year of wonders.
- ISBN
- 0142000787 / 9780142000786
- Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 5.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 4.3 x 0.8
in.