by Jill Paton Walsh · Gradiva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789726624905
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«O Conhecimento dos Anjos» is the historical and philosophical novel by Jill Paton Walsh, published by Gradiva in paperback (232 pages, in Portuguese).
In the Middle Ages, a Mediterranean island welcomes two newcomers: a girl raised among wolves and Palinor, a castaway with superior knowledge and logic. The contrast between their experiences and the islanders' beliefs opens a conflict between tolerance and established morality, love and cruelty.
The novel was originally published as «Knowledge of Angels» in 1994 and nominated for the Booker Prize; this Portuguese edition is from 1996.
For readers of historical and philosophical fiction, as well as for book clubs.
Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford,, known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and for the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.
