Conclave: The bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club thriller

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Conclave: The bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club thriller

Conclave: The bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club thriller

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At the plate glass entrance to the Casa Santa Marta, the Swiss guard saluted, a white-gloved hand to a red-plumed helmet. Mucho se ha especulado sobre las intrigas palaciegas que tienen lugar en dichos eventos, y me imagino que se nos pondrían los pelos de punta si pudiéramos escuchar las deliberaciones en directo, por no hablar de las de la época de los Borgia, por poner un ejemplo. But it is the kind of book one must approach with an open mind, any pre conceived notions will spoil it for you. If you think this sounds surprisingly similar to the plots of several other of Harris’s novels then you’d be right.

As he makes these indiscretions known to the Cardinals, it starts to look like Lomeli is meticulously eliminating his competition to be Pope.Clear parallels can be drawn between themes explored in Conclave and those in Harris’ Cicero trilogy – the obvious difference here being the contemporary Vatican setting and the bestowing of religious / quasi-political power – contrasting with the ancient Roman Senate and the goal of political / military / absolute power. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

I found this a fascinating insight into the strange world of Vatican politics and a great political thriller. Conclave é um thriller que explora os efeitos do poder no seio da Cúria Romana e, colateralmente, denuncia luxos, riquezas e negócios. The clandestine nature of a Papal vote offers the novelist a degree of imaginative freedom as there are no visible campaigns, no political conventions, no Twitter wars and no television cameras. As cardinals arrive from all over the world to cast their ballots, Lomeli wrestles with a few issues surrounding cardinal electors, including one Cardinal Tremblay, the Vatican Camerlengo, its temporary leader, a French-Canadian who was apparently removed from all positions the night before the pope died. In the course of his novel, Robert Harris had the opportunity to discuss the growing number of Catholics located outside of Europe and their underrepresentation with Cardinal hats.As someone who had a notionally Catholic upbringing – I wouldn’t go so far as to say lapsed as I was never convinced to begin with – I felt keenly the contradiction between enjoying all these treasures and thinking that the wealth that purchased them should never have been appropriated from my ancestors in the first place. Nonetheless, there is only one possible word to describe Robert Harris’s new novel, and it is this: unputdownable.



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