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Jerusalem is ruled by rosemary-scented King Herod. By the bougainvillea in Deuteronomy Square, Reuben's tea stall keeps customers sweet with lemon koloochehs. Onesimus the greengrocer piles his polished pears and pineapples in ziggurats, blind harpist Tabitha captivates bachelor Pharisees, Roman sentries doze and the widower Simeon, beset by gout and befriended by a dog called Shlomo, watches the passing promenade. By day Simeon dodges bossy superintendent Kedar. By starlit night he contemplates lost loves and the visits of a bad-tempered angel.

Quentin Letts's delightful tales bring first-century Jerusalem to quirky life and show how the prophet Simeon, whose Nunc Dimittis became one of the great canticles of Christendom, can help an ailing twenty-first-century Englishman come to terms with his fate.

Nunc! is a gracious yet beautifully navigated meditation on life, love and death.

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Book category Books in German Belletristik Erzählende Literatur Hauptwerk vor 1945

• Full title: NUNC!
• Author: Quentin Letts
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781408722848
• ISBN: 1408722844
• ID: 46504058
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 372 g
• Dimensions: 222 × 138 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. April 2025

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