The Shoes Of The Fisherman (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
What if the most powerful spiritual office in the world were thrust upon a man shaped not by privilege, but by the brutal crucible of a Soviet labour camp? Morris West's The Shoes of the Fisherman chronicles the extraordinary ascent of Kiril Lakota, a Ukrainian Catholic bishop who, after languishing for seventeen years as a political prisoner in Siberia, is unexpectedly released and, in a breathtaking twist of fate, elected to the papacy. Set against the razor's-edge tension of the Cold War, the novel presents a world teetering on the brink of nuclear catastrophe and mass famine, where the new Pope must wield his immense moral authority to broker peace between superpowers who trust no one. West, one of Australia's most celebrated novelists, writes with the authority of a man who himself spent years studying for the priesthood, and that intimate knowledge lends the narrative an authenticity that is both rare and electrifying. The novel argues that true faith is not found in ceremony and doctrine, but is forged in suffering and tested by impossible moral choices. Published to international acclaim and a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, it remains a landmark work of 20th-century political and spiritual fiction — one that asks a question as urgent today as it was then: can a single conscience change the course of history?
Author: Morris West
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, The Franklin Library
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
What if the most powerful spiritual office in the world were thrust upon a man shaped not by privilege, but by the brutal crucible of a Soviet labour camp? Morris West's The Shoes of the Fisherman chronicles the extraordinary ascent of Kiril Lakota, a Ukrainian Catholic bishop who, after languishing for seventeen years as a political prisoner in Siberia, is unexpectedly released and, in a breathtaking twist of fate, elected to the papacy. Set against the razor's-edge tension of the Cold War, the novel presents a world teetering on the brink of nuclear catastrophe and mass famine, where the new Pope must wield his immense moral authority to broker peace between superpowers who trust no one. West, one of Australia's most celebrated novelists, writes with the authority of a man who himself spent years studying for the priesthood, and that intimate knowledge lends the narrative an authenticity that is both rare and electrifying. The novel argues that true faith is not found in ceremony and doctrine, but is forged in suffering and tested by impossible moral choices. Published to international acclaim and a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, it remains a landmark work of 20th-century political and spiritual fiction — one that asks a question as urgent today as it was then: can a single conscience change the course of history?