Michel Faber - The Fire Gospel (epub)

From The New York Times best-selling author of The Crimson Petal and the White,
Michel Faber's The Fire Gospel is a wickedly funny, acid-tongued, media-savvy
picaresque that delves into our sensationalist culture. Theo Griepenkerl, a
Canadian linguistics scholar, is sent to Iraq in search of artifacts that have
survived the destruction and looting of the war. While visiting a museum in Mosul,
he finds nine papyrus scrolls tucked in the belly of a basrelief sculpture: they
have been perfectly preserved for more than two thousand years. After smuggling them
out of Iraq and translating them from Aramaic, Theo realizes the extent of his
career-making find, for he is in possession of the Fifth Gospel, and it offers a
shocking and incomparable eyewitness account of Christ's crucifixion and last days
on Earth. A hugely entertaining, and by turns shocking story, The Fire Gospel is a
smart, stylish, and suspenseful novel.

Title: The Fire Gospel
Author: Michel Faber
Published January 12, 2010 by Grove
ISBN: 0802144748
Language: English
Length: 224 pages