Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them. For now this is a family story and this family is is a father, mother and two sons. One with his father's violence in his blood. One who lives his mother's artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will change their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years - they will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From distant Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium to modern day American and beyond. While the world mutates around them, their destinies will remain the same. And fulfilling a destiny may take lifetimes... A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom is the extraordinary new novel from acclaimed writer John Boyne. Ambitious, far-reaching and mythic, it introduces a group of characters whose lives we will come to know and will follow through time and space until they reach their natural conclusion.
Den romerske legionæren Marinus er familiefaren i en historie med en blodig begynnelse. Historien fortelles av en kunstnerisk gutt med en blodtørstig far, en kjærlig mor og en morderisk søster. Han vokser opp fra år 1 til år 2080, og historiene hans er de samme, men også forskjellige, gjennom utallige generasjoner og steder. Små glimt av menneskers liv ser ut til å være individuelle, men veves sammen til et større narrativ. Boken inngår i BS Engelsk Bestselgerabonnement Høst 2020. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.
