Names of the Women

Jeet Thayil author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:24th Mar '22

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'Dazzling' MARLON JAMES, BOOKER PRIZE WINNER
'Original and thought-provoking' SPECTATOR
'Electrifying' TESSA HADLEY

Under a predawn sky, humming with starlight and the songs of birds, a group of determined women return to the cave where they have laid the body of their saviour. When they arrive, it is empty.

Names of the Women tells the stories of fifteen women whose lives overlapped with the life of Christ. Women who stayed with Christ through the crucifixion, when his disciples had abandoned him, and who spread his radical message - one that made them equals and a profound threat to power within the church.

Together, the voices of the women dare us to reimagine the story of the New Testament in a way it has never before been told.

*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN*

Names of the Women is an extraordinary work of restoration, playful invention, and stark beauty. -- Chris Power
Bold and compelling. -- Rebecca Abrams * Financial Times *
Theologically well-informed, imaginative and affecting . . . This is a fascinating and beautiful book. You most certainly do not have to be either a Christian or a feminist to appreciate it. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *
Achingly beautiful. Powerful, poetic and profoundly feminist. -- Jennifer Croft
Jeet Thayil's Names of the Women enacts a long-overdue reinstating of female voices in the story of Jesus . . . -- Emily Watkins * i *
Thayil sheds absorbing light on a period when women of all classes were disregarded . . . [Names of the Women is] executed with real empathy and aplomb. -- Max Davidson * Mail on Sunday *
Original and thought-provoking . . . This is a bold and beguiling addition to the canon of New Testament fiction. -- Michael Arditti * Spectator *
Names of The Women unerases the erased, gives voice to the silenced, restores the lost, and brings dazzling, smouldering life to stories long left for dead. It is literally a tale that's waited a thousand years to be told. -- Marlon James, Winner of the 2015 Booker Prize
An electrifying new treatment of the old story; haunting, mysterious, intelligent. -- Tessa Hadley
Fascinating. -- Claire Allfree * Daily Mail *

ISBN: 9781529113822

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 8mm

Weight: 161g

192 pages