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Delacorte Press
October 2008
On Sale: September 30, 2008
480 pages
ISBN: 0385341695
EAN: 9780385341691
Hardcover
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Historical
In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a
dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—an
ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human
drama.
The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the
country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate
strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the
certain death that is running inexorably toward
them.
Each member of this motley company has a story
to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the
group’s leader, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller . . .
from the strange, silent child called Narigorm to a painter
and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. None is what they
seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of
all—propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw
coming.
Magical, heart-quickening, and raw,
Company of Liars is a work of vaulting imagination
from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.
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