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| Original Title: | The Religion |
| ISBN: | 0374248656 (ISBN13: 9780374248659) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Tannhauser Trilogy #1 |
| Characters: | Mattias Tannhauser |
| Setting: | Malta |
Tim Willocks
Hardcover | Pages: 613 pages Rating: 4.09 | 2759 Users | 396 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Religion (Tannhauser Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Tim Willocks |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 613 pages |
| Published | : | May 15th 2007 by Sarah Crichton Books (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction |
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This is what we dream of: to be so swept away, so poleaxed by a book that the breath is sucked right out of us. Brace yourselves.May 1565. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada of all time approaches the knights' Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. The Turks know the knights as the "Hounds of Hell." The knights call themselves "The Religion."
In Messina, Sicily, a French countess, Carla La Penautier, seeks passage to Malta in a quest to find the son taken from her at his birth twelve years ago. The only man with the expertise and daring to help her is a Rabelaisian soldier of fortune, arms dealer, former janissary, and strapping Saxon adventurer by the name of Mattias Tannhauser. He agrees to accompany the lady to Malta, where, amid the most spectacular siege in military history, they must try to find the boy--whose name they do not know and whose face they have never seen--and pluck him from the jaws of Holy War.
The Religion is the first book of the Tannhauser Trilogy, and from the first page of this epic account of the last great medieval conflict between East and West, it is clear we are in the hands of a master. Not since James Clavell has a novelist so powerfully and assuredly plunged readers headlong into another world and time. Anne Rice transformed the vampire novel. Stephen King reinvented horror. Now, in a spectacular tale of heroism, tragedy, and passion, Tim Willocks revivifies historical fiction.
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Ratings: 4.09 From 2759 Users | 396 ReviewsDiscuss Appertaining To Books The Religion (Tannhauser Trilogy #1)
I really wanted to like this book more. It's very well-written, and the Siege of Malta is one of my favorite periods in history. Though the violence was often gratuitous, I could get past that (barely). It was the several very graphic, drawn-out sex scenes I couldn't tolerate. I felt they cheapened the novel. From the other reviews I can see I'm in the minority.Book Recs: Extended action scenes, battle scenes, meaningful depictions of large scale violence, can be hard to depict in prose. I don't tend to enjoy reading them; maybe the screen is a better medium in this area. But there are some masterly literary practitioners of combat on a large scale (Abercrombie, McCarthy, Doctorow spring to mind). Willocks is another writer who excels in this area, and not only does he excel at depicting the appalling savagery of historical warfare, he also excels at
So I had to change my glasses at the second hand book shop and accidentally picked up a third book with the two I decided to purchase. The guy at the cash says' where did you find this? I've been looking everywhere for it.'That's when I should have known it was a keeper.I had to stop and google the siege of Malta just to double check and see who won because the story is that real I kept thinking 'they can't possibly pull it off.'One of the articles I read actually recommended reading The
I came to this novel from the author's outstanding work Green River Rising, which is one of the most memorable books I've ever read. Haunting hardly captures the effect it had on me. So when I read that this was a book about the Knights of St John defending Malta by the same author who wrote such a powerful novel about a contemporary prison riot I was intrigued. And how timely, a novel about the defence of European civilization. Yes, this is the 1500s, but times, apparently, don't change all
addendum: i've seen that people have complained about the content of this book on another site. be warned - it's gory, bloody and fairly disgusting. but hey, when you're in an army roughly the size of the population of rhode island doing battle with another army that's comparable to oh, let's say the size of at least half the population of the united states (i exagerate of course, but not by much...), it's not going to be pretty. when you see that horde coming down on you, i'm guessing it's
I am torn between giving four stars and five. The language and vocabulary are exquisite. It is only the incessant warring that makes one weary in the reading. The slaying and butchery would have been more striking had it not gone on and on and on and on.The book relates the true tale of how the island of Malta (the stronghold of the Christian Knights who call themselves "The Religion") was besieged by the Ottoman hordes. The fictitious tale that runs parallel with this battle is about a man,
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