Author:Alessandro Manzoni,Bruce Penman,Bruce Penman
Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters - the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the sinister 'Unnamed' - in their struggle to be reunited. A vigorous portrayal of enduring passion, The Betrothed's exploration of love, power and faith presents a whirling panorama of seventeenth-century Italian life and is one of the greatest European historical novels.
A gift to humanity
—— Giuseppe VerdiAn important book... Extraordinary
—— Independent on SundayProbably the best book on the [Booker] longlist, the one that will last... Every word counts. Every sentence lives
—— Evening StandardThe best novel I've read this year, a book so bold and so clever that one wants to call it something other than a novel, to take it out of that commonplace genre
—— Frank Kermode , Times Literary SupplementA readable and engaging book. Demanding, playful, provocative...hugely enlightening and rewarding
—— Sunday TimesMr Greens' extraordinary power of plot-making, of suspense and of narration...moves continuously both in time and space and in emotion
—— The TimesHis style is spare, that's what is so beautiful. His novels are genuine romans philosophies - novels illustrating ideas
—— Piers Paul ReadIn a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety
—— William Golding
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