# Pilgermann

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- Book: [Pilgermann](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-hoban/pilgermann) ([Pilgermann.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-hoban/pilgermann.md))
- Authors: [Russell Hoban](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-hoban)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- Medium: audio
- Length: 9 h 42 min
- Narrated by: George Weightman
- ISBN: 978-02-4152-512-8
- Published: 2021-04-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 9 h 42 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pilgermann is a mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades, following its unlikely hero and those he meets on a journey of picaresque horror across a Europe of hatreds, visions and a desperate wish for salvation. 'Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple' Guardian 'A dark treatise on the mysterious nature of things ... The world according to Pilgermann is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch, pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel' The New York Times Book Review 'A strange and beautiful work' Evening Standard © Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021