The War of the Poor: Eric Vuillard Signed

Vuillard, Eric

ISBN 10: 1529038537 / ISBN 13: 9781529038538

Published by Picador, 2021

About this Item

In a black hardcover with metallic red titles to spine. With an unclipped dust jacket with white titles to spine and front, a publisher's "signed first edition" wrapper and a clear plastic jacket protector. Red end papers. Signed by author on page inserted after half title. 69 pp.The book is in as new condition. The cover is free of shelf-wear, the binding is tight and the pages clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is also as new. Gift Aid no. 2457. This item is being sold under the Retail Gift Aid scheme to support Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust. Gift Aid enables us to increase the value of donations by 25%. Amnesty International UK Section is acting as an agent selling this item on behalf of one of our Gift Aid Donors.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The War of the Poor: Eric Vuillard Signed
• Publisher: Picador
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529038537
• ISBN 13: 9781529038538
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021

'A dazzling piece of historical re-imagining and a revolutionary sermon, a furious denunciation of inequality' The judges of the International Booker prize.

The fight for equality begins in the streets.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Order of the Day: Éric Vuillard once again takes us behind the scenes at a moment when history was being written.

The history of inequality is a long and terrible one. And it’s not over yet. Short, sharp and devastating, The War of the Poor tells the story of a brutal episode from history, not as well known as tales of other popular uprisings, but one that deserves to be told.

Sixteenth-century Europe: the Protestant Reformation takes on the powerful and the privileged. Peasants, the poor living in towns, who are still being promised that equality will be granted to them in heaven, begin to ask themselves: and why not equality now, here on earth?

There follows a violent struggle. Out of this chaos steps Thomas Müntzer: a complex and controversial figure, who sided with neither Martin Luther, nor the Roman Catholic Church. Müntzer addressed the poor directly, encouraging them to ask why a God who apparently loved the poor seemed to be on the side of the rich.

Éric Vuillard tells the story of one man whose terrible and novelesque life casts light on the times in which he lived – a moment when Europe was in flux. As in his blistering look at the build-up to World War II, The Order of the Day, Vuillard 'leaves nothing sleeping in the shadows' (L'OBS).