Requiem

Requiem

by Graham Joyce (Author)

Synopsis

After the tragic death of his wife, Katie, Tom Webster travels to modern-day Jerusalem in search of a lost love and a reason to keep on living. He finds a city haunted by ghosts and djinn, divided by warring religious factions, yet offering him no refuge from his guilt and grief. Even his passionate affair with Sharon, an old friend and lover from his college days, cannot save Tom from the madness that appears to be overcoming him, nor hide him from the mysterious, spectral woman who shadows his every step. Only when a dying scholar entrusts him with a previously unknown Dead Sea Scroll does Tom begin to realize that his torment and bizarre hallucinations relate not only to his wife's death, but to another death that shaped the world two thousand years ago... What woman truly haunts Tom's ordeal in Jerusalem? Sharon? Katie? Or the restless spirit of none other than Mary Magdalene?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 01 Feb 1998

ISBN 10: 0312864523
ISBN 13: 9780312864521

Media Reviews
Joyce explores the shape and the texture of truth, walks the thin line between the religious and the sexual, and makes readers marvel at the power of the spirit and the psyche....The book generates the suspense of a fine thriller; in its pursuit of religious themes, it is as piercing as any theological exploration; and as a haunting expression of magic realism, it evokes the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. - Booklist A profoundly mysterious fantasy with its roots deep in truth; awesome and beautiful and terrifying. I wish I could write half as eloquently. -Ramsey Campbell