Sacred Hunger

Barry Unsworth (author)

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction | Paperback Published on: 04/02/1993

£12.99

No reviews yet, be the first

Free UK delivery on orders over £25, otherwise £2.99

In stock
Usually dispatched within 1-2 days

Make and edit your lists in your account

Check click & collect stock near you
Collect today: Pay in shop

View other formats and editions

Synopsis

Winner of the Booker Prize 1992

A story about the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for denying Holy Writ.

This brilliantly suspenseful period piece about the slave trade in the 18th century is also a meditation on how avarice dehumanizes the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780140119930
Number of pages: 640
Weight: 443g
Dimensions: 198 x 131 x 38 mm