Author: Hilary Mantel
Translator: Yoon-sook Ha
Publisher: Ol
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About This Book
WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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 opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas
Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist
and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his
ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous.
Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of
his triumph?
In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall is "a darkly brilliant
reimagining of life under Henry VIII. . . . Magnificent." (The Boston
Globe).
About the Author
Hilary Mantel is the author of the 2009 Booker Prize-winning novel
Wolf Hall as well as nine previous novels, all available from Picador
and Henry Holt, including A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater
Safety, and Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. She has also written a
memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize, she
reviews for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the
London Review of Books. She lives in England.
Media Reviews
"A huge book, in its range, ambition . . . in its success.
[Mantel's] interest is in the question of good and evil as it applies to
people who wield great power. That means anguish, exultation, deals,
spies, decapitations, and fabulous clothes . . . She always goes for
color, richness, music. She has read Shakespeare closely. One also hears
the accents of the young James Joyce." --Joan Acocella, The New Yorker
"Dazzling . . . .Thomas Cromwell remains a controversial and mysterious
figure. Mantel has filled in the blanks plausibly, brilliantly. Wolf
Hall has epic scale but lyric texture. Its 500-plus pages turn quickly,
winged and falconlike . . . . both spellbinding and believable."
--Christopher Benfey, The New York Times Book Review
"Mantel's abilities to channel the life and lexicon of the past are
nothing short of astonishing. She burrows down through the historical
record to uncover the tiniest, most telling details, evoking the
minutiae of history as vividly as its grand sweep. The dialogue is so
convincing that she seems to have been, in another life, a stenographer
taking notes in the taverns and palaces of England." --Ross King, Los
Angeles Times
"Darkly magnificent . . . Instead of bringing the past to us, her
writing, brilliant and black, launches us disconcertingly into the past.
We are space-time travelers landed in an alien world . . . history is a
feast whose various and vital excitements and intrigues make the book a
long and complex pleasure." --Richard Eder, The Boston Globe
"Arch, elegant, richly detailed . . . [Wolf Hall's] main characters are
scorchingly well rendered. And their sharp-clawed machinations are
presented with nonstop verve in a book that can compress a wealth of
incisiveness into a very few well-chosen words . . . Deft and diabolical
as they are, Ms. Mantel's slyly malicious turns of phrase . . .
succinctly capture the important struggles that have set her characters
talking." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times
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