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About Simon Mawer
See more books from this AuthorReligious mystery, sexual intrigue, and the enigmas of identity—all are mingled together in this breathtakingly readable intellectual thriller.
May 20 2010 | Read Full Review of The Gospel of Judas : A NovelA crisis of faith is at the heart of this fascinating, thoughtful literary thriller revolving around the discovery of a manuscript written by the historical Judas. Father Leo Newman, close to middl
Apr 09 2001 | Read Full Review of The Gospel of Judas : A NovelHe has set out to dramatise the question of truth, the most intractable question of all.
Aug 13 2000 | Read Full Review of The Gospel of Judas : A NovelWhat Newman, already shaken by the end of his affair with Madeline Brewer, does to that ancient manuscript is the ultimate betrayal in the novel, but as in so many modern interpretations of the crime of Judas, the betrayal is really the outward evidence of an affirmation of faith.
| Read Full Review of The Gospel of Judas : A NovelIn particular, the flashback story of Leo's mother's tragic love affair in wartime Rome slows the movement of the plot and pulls the reader away from the main theme and drama of the story --- the manuscript.
Nov 27 2017 | Read Full Review of The Gospel of Judas : A NovelIn particular, the flashback story of Leo's mother's tragic love affair in wartime Rome slows the movement of the plot and pulls the reader away from the main theme and drama of the story --- the manuscript.
Jan 22 2011 | Read Full Review of The Gospel of Judas : A NovelThe priest of Christ, not Christ, animates this book.In the final pages we learn that toward the end of the war Gretchen has taken the name "Mrs. Newman" names, after all, always had meanings and that Leo, the child with which she is pregnant, is "a kind of resurrection."
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