00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Groff, Lauren aut Verfasser/-in historical novel Historischer Roman Marie de France Mittelalter New York Times-Bestseller Matrix Lauren Groff London Penguin Books 2022 Published in Penguin Books in 2022 The New York Times Bestseller. Shortlisted for the National Book Awards. An Obama's Book of the Year. [...] Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse for courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal court and sent to Angleterre to take up her new duty as the prioress of an impoverished abbey. Lauren Groff's modern masterpiece is about the establishment of a female utopia. [...] "Visionary leader, queer lover, 12th-century writer ... the life of Marie de France is triumphantly reimagined in an assertively modern novel about female ambition and creativity... a highly distinctive novel of great vigour and boldness. From mystical visions that may or may not be divine, to the earthy business of abbey pigs, diseases and account books, Groff does it all with purpose and panache." ("Guardian") 9781529157864 9781529157864 eng 260 Seiten