Ogledalo i svetlost, 1. deo

Thomas Cromwell #3, part 1

by Hilary Mantel, Marija Pavićević (Translator)

Maj 1536, Ana Bolen je mrtva. Henri VIII započinje brak sa svojom trećom kraljicom, Džejn Simor, a Tomas Kromvel, beznačajni sin kovača iz Patnija, postaje desna ruka svojeglavog kralja.

Kromvel, čovek bez plemićkog porekla, ima viziju zemlje izmenjene društvenim i religioznim reformama. Da bi postigao taj cilj, može se osloniti samo na svoj bistar um i lukavstvo. Henrijevoj vladavini prete pobune i zavere, kao i ratovi, a Kromvelovi neprijatelji okupljaju se u senkama. Ipak, najveća opasnost dolazi sa samog vrha, jer malo ko može dugo da izdrži Henrijev okrutni, kapriciozni pogled.

Mantelova trijumfalno priča priču o Tomasu Kromvelu, čoveku koji se iz siromaštva i nemaštine izborio za najmoćnije mesto u državi. Kroz njegov život ispreda priču o lovcima i lovini, borbi između prošlosti i budućnosti, kraljevskoj volji i viziji običnog čoveka, i nastanku moderne države iz konflikta, strasti i hrabrosti.

576 pages, Paperback

Published March 29, 2022

About the author

Hilary Mantel was the bestselling author of many novels including Wolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Bring Up the Bodies, Book Two of the Wolf Hall Trilogy, was also awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. She also wrote A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, An Experiment in Love, The Giant, O'Brien, Fludd, Beyond Black, Every Day Is Mother's Day, Vacant Possession, and a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Mantel was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and her reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books.