From National Book Award-winning writer James Carroll comes a novel of the timeless love story of Peter Abelard and HÃ©loÃ¯se, and its impact on a modern priest and a Holocaust survivor

The Cloister: A Novel

From National Book Award-winning writer James Carroll comes a novel of the timeless love story of Peter Abelard and HÃ©loÃ¯se, and its impact on a modern priest and a Holocaust survivor seeking sanctuary in Manhattan.

Father Michael Kavanagh is shocked to see a friend from his seminary days named Runner Malloy at the altar of his humble Inwood community parish. Wondering about their past, he wanders into the medieval haven of The Cloisters, and begins a conversation with a lovely and intriguing museum guide, Rachel Vedette.
Â Â Â Â Rachel, a scholar of medieval history, has retreated to the quiet of The Cloisters after her harrowing experience as a Jewish woman in France during the Holocaust. She ponders her late father's greatest intellectual work: a study demonstrating the relationship between the famously discredited monk Peter Abelard and Jewish scholars. Something about Father Kavanagh makes Rachel think he might appreciate her continued studies, and she shares with him the work that cost her father his life.
Â Â Â Â At the center of these interrelated stories is the classic romance between the great scholar Peter Abelard and his intellectual equal HÃ©loÃ¯se. For Rachel, Abelard is the key to understanding her people's place in intellectual history. For Kavanagh, he is a doorway to understanding the life he might have had outside of the Church. The Cloister is James Carroll at his best.
Country USA
Manufacturer Nan A. Talese
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2018-03-06
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780385541275

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Nan A. Talese
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2018-03-06
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780385541275

The Cloister: A Novel

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