Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago.
An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a sign of something enormous.
Like a contagion, the story will spread over the city, the country and, eventually, the world.
Emmanuel Carrere's astonishing historical epic tells the story of the mysterious beginnings of Christianity, bringing to life a distant, primeval past of strange sects, apocalyptic beliefs and political turmoil.
In doing so Carrere, once himself a fervent believer, questions his own faith, asks why we believe in resurrection, and what it means.
The Kingdom is his masterpiece.
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