# The Kingdom

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- Authors: [Emmanuel Carrère](https://www.bookquiver.com/emmanuel-carrere)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2017-03-02

## Description

Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a sign of something enormous. Like a contagion, the story will spread over the city, the country and, eventually, the world. Emmanuel Carrère's astonishing historical epic tells the story of the mysterious beginnings of Christianity, bringing to life a distant, primeval past of strange sects, apocalyptic beliefs and political turmoil. In doing so Carrère, once himself a fervent believer, questions his own faith, asks why we believe in resurrection, and what it means. The Kingdom is his masterpiece.

## Editions

### The Kingdom

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-115-4
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2018-03-01
- Language: en_GB

### The Kingdom

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4120-295-1
- Published: 2017-03-02
- Language: en_GB