Wolf Hall - Gatti Ninja

Paperback, 604 pages

English language

Published March 2, 2015 by Picador.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-07758-5
OCLC Number:: 904964637

Winners of the Man Booker Prize and hugely successful stage plays in London's West End and on Broadway, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies bring history to life for a whole new audience having now been adapted into a six-part television series by the BBC and PBS Masterpiece.

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, master of deadly intrigue, and implacable in his ambition. --back cover

Winners of the Man Booker Prize and hugely successful stage plays in London's West End and on Broadway, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies bring history to life for a whole new audience having now been adapted into a six-part television series by the BBC and PBS Masterpiece.

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, master of deadly intrigue, and implacable in his ambition. --back cover

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NurRossi@bookwyrm.de reviewed Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Irgendwann lese ich auch den zweiten Teil

4 stars

Eins vorweg: ich mag eigentlich keine Historienromane. Dafür hat es mir allerdings recht gut gefallen. Es ist auf jeden Fall von Vorteil fürs Dabeibleiben, dass es sich um tatsächliche historische Geschehnisse handelt. Man kann sich dann die Gemälde von Hans Hohlbein ansehen oder weitere Quellen zu den Vorkommnissen lesen. Anfangs war mir öfter nicht klar, wer im Text jetzt gerade "er" ist. Irgendwann habe ich verstanden, dass im Zweifelsfall eigentlich immer Thomas Cromwell gemeint ist. Ab da lief es besser mit dem Verständnis. Ich kann mir sogar vorstellen, irgendwann den zweiten Band zu lesen. Nicht jetzt gleich, aber später vielleicht mal...

Subjects

Fiction
Court and courtiers
History

Places

Great Britain