A mesmerising new novel from the author of the bestselling Four Letters of Love.
John stands in the storm. He has no fear of any kind. He has outlived all manner of pain and been near enough to death to kiss its face and walk away. He has lived for a purpose and believes he knows what it is.
Niall Williams' new novel is a prodigious feat of imagination, written with poetic vision. Set among the followers of John the Divine in their years of exile on Patmos, it finds them divided and bewildered, anxiously awaiting signs that never came, ravaged by doubt and schism, their leader old and seemingly defeated.
Intensely written, it is a highly unusual and utterly mesmerising novel about courage, loyalty, persecution and the wild romance of belief.
