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The War of the Poor (Paperback)

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Paperback 80 Pages
Published: 06/01/2022
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Waterstones Says

From the Prix Goncourt-winning author of The Order of the Day comes a pithy and myth-shattering tale of revolt against power and privilege during the Reformation in sixteenth-century Germany.

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021

The fight for equality begins in the streets.

The history of inequality is a long and terrible one. And it's not over yet. Short, sharp and devastating, The War of the Poor tells the story of a brutal episode from history, not as well known as tales of other popular uprisings, but one that deserves to be told.

Sixteenth-century Europe: the Protestant Reformation takes on the powerful and the privileged. Peasants, the poor living in towns, who are still being promised that equality will be granted to them in heaven, begin to ask themselves: and why not equality now, here on earth?

There follows a violent struggle. Out of this chaos steps Thomas Muntzer: a complex and controversial figure, who sided with neither Martin Luther, nor the Roman Catholic Church. Muntzer addressed the poor directly, encouraging them to ask why a God who apparently loved the poor seemed to be on the side of the rich.

Eric Vuillard tells the story of one man whose terrible and novelesque life casts light on the times in which he lived - a moment when Europe was in flux. As in his blistering look at the build-up to World War II, The Order of the Day, Vuillard here once again takes us behind the scenes at a moment when history was being written.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781529038552
Number of pages: 80
Weight: 96 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 7 mm

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“Not really sure what this is supposed to be”

Is it fiction ? If yes, it reads like someone is reading an essay from a student. Such a shame as I absolutely loved Order of the Day, and was very eager to read the author's second book.
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Hardback edition
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“Brief clever novel!”

A witty portrait of the exploited. If taken out of context, it can be read as a very contemporary essay.

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