Cant help it,have rediscovered books LOL
My son lent me his copy of 'The left hand of god' by Paul Hoffman which is a fantasy novel set in an alternative reality. In this world religion has gone mad.
Things are familiar but skewed. For instance,the characters are monks living in a sanctuary that is filled with rules. Not the sort of rules you would expect to find in a monastery,more what you would expect from a penitentiary .
There is no specific icon that they follow ,their saviour who died for his beliefs is called the 'hanged redeemer'. However things overlap with the real world in that there is a Bible ,only man is not permitted to read it. Sins are punished by death.
Everything in this world is surrounded by espionage and deceit.
The characters are mainly but not entirely children.
Not children as you would think of them in our world, these children are naive and yet worldly at the same time.
Everything in this world that appears to have no direction,is in fact serving a purpose or there is one intended somewhere soon.
Place names are taken from reality and have a certain irony to them at times.
I love this book for its humour as well as it's intrigue.
Just when things are at their direst,along comes a lighter element to get you chuckling again in an almost Terry Pratchet twist.
Having devoured this book in under a week,I am now gnawing my way through the sequel .
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