Doomsday Book -

Connie Willis

Allen & Unwin

2005

708 páginas

23h 36m

ISBN-13: 9781741141955

Somewhere in the future, ordinary history students must travel back in time as part of their university degree. An award-winning best-seller in the United States, this is the first of Connie Willis' brilliant Oxford trilogy.

Kivrin knows everything about the Middle Ages - she's read all the books. She knows it's dangerous: cutthroats in the woods, witch hunts, cholera, and millions dying in the plague. For a young historian, it's fascinating.

When Kivrin's tutors in Oxford's history lab finally agree to send her on an on-site study trip, she jumps at the chance to observe medieval life first-hand. But a crisis that strangely links the past and future leaves her stranded in the most deadly and terrifying era in human history, face to face with the heart-rending reality behind the statistics. And while she fights for her own life, Kivrin finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope in this dark time.

Five years in the writing, Doomsday Book is a storytelling triumph. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the timeless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit.

Resenhas (2)

5 (Perfeito)

É um livro muito bom e muito diferente do que eu esperava. Uma história de ficção cientifica/histórica que te leva num paralelo entre o futuro e o passado, passando por duas epidemias distintas. Apesar de ficcional, é um relato sensível da devastação causada pela peste durante a idade média.