In the new edition - one of the most famous British novels of the new century, "the best Booker laureate in many years." Moreover, the sequel to Wolfhall also received Booker - an unprecedented event in the history of the award. And in March 2020, the final novel of the trilogy, Mirror and Light, is finally released.
“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.” ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
England, XVI century. Henry VIII Tudor is on the throne - but if he dies without leaving an heir, civil war will break out. Thomas Cromwell, the son of a rowdy blacksmith, who managed to serve as a mercenary in the French army, worked in a Florentine banking house and imbued with the ideas of Machiavellianism, is the former secretary of the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey. Some consider Cromwell an unprincipled villain, others a political genius. By any means - flattery and threats, bribery and arrests - fulfilling the will of the king, he begins to build a new England ...
In 2015, the BBC TV channel filmed both novels, starring Mark Rylance (Another of the Boleyn Family, Bridge of Spy, Dunkirk), Damien Lewis (Romeo and Juliet, Once Upon a Time ... Hollywood "), Claire Foy (" Honored "," Crown "," Man on the Moon "). The series "Wolf Hall" was nominated for a Golden Globe in three categories (won one), for BAFTA - in eight (won in three) and for an Emmy - also in eight.
You can get «Wolf Hall» at Amazon.
This article was sponsored by Ngan Truong.
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