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A sweeping fictional profile of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the entire world. Gripped by the story of any Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying creator Emmanuel Carrère revisits the story of the early Church in his latest work. With an idiosyncratic and sometimes iconoclastic undertake the charms and foibles of the Church fathers, Carrère ferries listeners through his "doors" in to the biblical narrative. Once inside, he uses the ragtag band of early Christians through the tumultuous days and nights of the faith's founding. Shouldering biblical scholarship like a video camera, Carrère recreates the weather of the brand new Testament with the acumen of a seasoned storyteller, intertwining his own reckoning of the central tenets of the beliefs with the lives of the first Christians. Carrère places himself in the shoes of Saint Paul and above all Saint Luke, charting Luke's encounter with the marginal Jewish sect that eventually became Christianity and retracing his analysis of its creator, an obscure religious freak who passed away under notorious circumstances. Boldly blending scholarship with speculation, memoir with journalistic muckraking, Carrère packages from a headlong run after through the second option area of the Bible, sketching out protagonists who believed they were swept up in the most important events of their own time. An expansive and brilliant meditation on belief, The Kingdom chronicles the advent of a religion and the ongoing quest to find a place within it.
