by Iris Murdoch · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140057577
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«Nuns and Soldiers» is Iris Murdoch's literary fiction novel, published by Penguin in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Gertrude Openshaw, recently widowed, and Anne Cavidge, a former nun, decide to live together between London and the south of France. Around them orbit the Count, a solitary Pole; Tim Reede, an artist, and his lover Daisy. A choral novel about desire, obligation, guilt and joy.
The novel was originally published in 1980; this 1990 Penguin edition includes an introduction by Karen Armstrong.
Suitable for readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century British narrative, with an interest in choral novels about relationships and morality.
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
