Publisher: | Little, Brown |
Genres: | Fiction Books, Historical Fiction, Religion Books |
Authors: | Emma Donoghue |
Pages: | 272 pages |
Binding: | Hardcover |
ISBN10: | 0316413933 |
ISBN13: | 9780316413930 |
Tags: | Fiction eBooks, Historical Fiction eBooks, Religion eBooks, epub eBooks, Free epub |
Language: | en |
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?