From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a novel set in sixteenth-century Europe about an obscure cleric who is preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe -- while being haunted by his malevolent brother and threatened by the conspiracies raging around him and his ideas.

Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence. For, in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks "the secret music of the universe" poses a most devastating threat.

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• Literature & FictionLiterary FictionBritish & Irish
• Literature & FictionLiterary FictionMystery, Thriller & Suspense

• Publication Date: March 14, 2012
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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• Print Length: 257 Pages
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