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Article: The Road to Jerusalem.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Publishers Weekly
- Article date:
- March 2, 2009
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The Road to Jerusalem
Jan Guillou, trans, from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. Harper, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-168853-9
Guillou has enjoyed smashing success in Sweden and Europe with his Crusades Trilogy, but American readers may be disappointed in this slow-starting first volume, which, for all its complexity and intriguing premise, doesn't get anywhere near the Holy Land. The epic kicks off in 1150 Sweden with the birth of Arn Magnusson, the second son of a minor nobleman. Arn is sent to a cloister where monks teach him to read, write ...