Book
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- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
The cloister : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION CARR (CEN)
Edition
First Edition.
Publication Information
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2017]
Physical Description
364 pages ; 25 cm
Summary
A priest and a Holocaust survivor find their perspectives and senses of identity reshaped by their shared investigation into the classic romance between discredited religious scholar Peter Abelard and his intellectual paramour, Héloïse.
After Father Michael Kavanagh sees a friend from his seminary days at the altar of his humble Inwood community parish, he wanders into the medieval haven of The Cloisters. In conversation with museum guide Rachel Vedette, he finds she retreated to the quiet of The Cloisters after her harrowing experience as a Jewish woman in France during the Holocaust. She shares with Kavanagh her late father's greatest intellectual work: a study demonstrating the relationship between the famously discredited monk Peter Abelard and Jewish scholars-- and the romance between Abelard and his intellectual equal Héloïse.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors > Fiction.
- Priests > Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
- Paris (France) > Fiction.
- Catholic Church > Clergy > Fiction.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei > Fiction.
- Cloisters (Museum) > Fiction.
- Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 > Fiction.
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142 > Fiction.