Names of the Women

Jeet Thayil

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Jonathan Cape Ltd
25 May 2021

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction; Religious & spiritual fiction

An extraordinary reimagining of the New Testament from the points of view of the women who became the disciples of Jesus Christ

- and whose roles have been erased from the Gospels

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles were suppressed, reduced or erased in the Gospels.

'Dazzling, smouldering . . . It is literally a tale that's waited a thousand years to be told.' MARLON JAMES, WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

Names of the Women begins with Christ on the cross addressing Mary of Magdala, asking her to bear witness to his death. As the novel unfolds, it tells the stories of fifteen women whose lives overlapped with the life of Christ. Lydia and Assia, Martha and Mary of Bethany, Junia the Widow of Jerusalem, Susanna the Barren, Ariamma the Canaanite, and others whose names have been spoken only in passing or not at all. Women who stayed with Christ through the crucifixion, when his disciples had abandoned him, and who spread his radical message - one that made them equals and a profound threat to power within the church.

Together, the voices of the women dare us to reimagine the story of the New Testament in a way it has never before been told.
*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN
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By: Jeet Thayil
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 325g
ISBN: 9781787332928
ISBN 10: 1787332926
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 25 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

JEET THAYIL was born in 1959 into a Syrian Christian family in Kerala, and educated at Jesuit schools in Bombay, Hong Kong and New York. Kerala's Syrian Christians trace their church to St. Thomas, who arrived on the Malabar coast around 50 AD and converted thirteen Hindu families to Christianity, or so tradition has it. Jeet's grandmother, Chachiamma Jacob, was the last of the family who recited from memory the hour-long service in Aramaic, Malayalam and Sanskrit that still defines the faith.

Reviews for Names of the Women

Achingly beautiful. Powerful, poetic and profoundly feminist. -- Jennifer Croft An electrifying new treatment of the old story; haunting, mysterious, intelligent. -- Tessa Hadley Names of the Women is an extraordinary work of restoration, playful invention, and stark beauty. In Jeet Thayil's skilled telling the gospel stories, which have lasted so long, spread so far, and become so dulled by familiarity, have their deep original strangeness returned to them. -- Chris Power Names of The Women unerases the erased, gives voice to the silenced, restores the lost, and brings dazzling, smouldering life to stories long left for dead. It is literally a tale that's waited a thousand years to be told. -- Marlon James, Winner of the 2015 Booker Prize