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La Lingua Rubata (1996)

by Sheri Holman(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Ponte alle Grazie

review 1: For the first few chapters, I was quite taken with the unusual setting (a ship full of pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land), but once the novelty effect wears off, this book becomes unutterably boring. A small set of bizarre characters chase each other like maniacs through Jerusalem and the Sinai, all in the name of reclaiming the bones of Saint Katherine of Alexandria, but each episode is just more of the same, and it turns out there is no method to the madness, and in fact, no semblance of a plot. I can't imagine how this drivel found a publisher in the first place.
review 2: I just re-read this and it's still a wild, funny and twisted caper. With lines such as, "Like a fart in the chapel, Ursus follows" (Ursus is a character's name, p. 74), Holman's brill... moreiance shines. It's a 15th-century pilgrimage to the Holy Land told from the POV of a monk obsessed with his spiritual 'wife,' St. Katherine of Alexandria. His love, faith, life, and sense of self is put through the wood-chipper. Lots of unexpected plot twists and insightful gems. less

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