Names of the Women
$22.99
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
5 July 2022
Summary
An extraordinary reimagining of the New Testament from the points of view of the women who became the disciples of Jesus Christ - and whose roles have been erased from the Gospels.
“Dazzling” MARLON JAMES, BOOKER PRIZE WINNER “Original and thought-provoking” SPECTATOR “Electrifying” TESSA HADLEY
Under a predawn sky, humming with starlight and the songs of birds, a group of determined women return to the cave where they have laid the body of their saviour. When they arrive, it …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529113822 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529113822 |
| Author: | Jeet Thayil |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 5 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 144g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
Names of the Women is an extraordinary work of restoration, playful invention, and stark beauty. – Chris Power
Bold and compelling. – Rebecca Abrams * Financial Times *
Theologically well-informed, imaginative and affecting … This is a fascinating and beautiful book. You most certainly do not have to be either a Christian or a feminist to appreciate it. – Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *
Achingly beautiful. Powerful, poetic and profoundly feminist. – Jennifer Croft
Jeet Thayil’s Names of the Women enacts a long-overdue reinstating of female voices in the story of Jesus … – Emily Watkins * i *
Thayil sheds absorbing light on a period when women of all classes were disregarded … [Names of the Women is] executed with real empathy and aplomb. – Max Davidson * Mail on Sunday *
Original and thought-provoking … This is a bold and beguiling addition to the canon of New Testament fiction. – Michael Arditti * Spectator *
Names of The Women unerases the erased, gives voice to the silenced, restores the lost, and brings dazzling, smouldering life to stories long left for dead. It is literally a tale that’s waited a thousand years to be told. – Marlon James, Winner of the 2015 Booker Prize
An electrifying new treatment of the old story; haunting, mysterious, intelligent. – Tessa Hadley
Fascinating. – Claire Allfree * Daily Mail *
About The Author
Jeet Thayil
Jeet Thayil was born in 1959 into a Syrian Christian family in Kerala, and educated at Jesuit schools in Bombay, Hong Kong and New York. Kerala’s Syrian Christians trace their church to St. Thomas, who arrived on the Malabar coast around 50 AD and converted thirteen Hindu families to Christianity, or so tradition has it. Jeet’s grandmother, Chachiamma Jacob, was the last of the family who recited from memory the hour-long service in Aramaic, Malayalam and Sanskrit that still defines the faith.
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