John Banville - The Untouchable

Fiction/Literature/0-679-73685-9

It is the sixteenth century. Princes and bishops send armies careening across Europe and order assassins into the bedchambers of their enemies. And in a remote corner of Poland, a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe.

Fiction/Literature/0-679-73799-5

On an unnamed island, a dayboat runs aground, forcing its group of shaken travelers to wade ashore. There they encounter a reclusive art historian and his assistant. But is the meeting truly an accident? If so, why does one of the castaways appear to know the reclusive scholar— and why is the latter so afraid of him?

Fiction/Literature/0-679-75512-8

John Banville re-creates the life of Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe. Wars, witchcraft, and disease rage throughout Europe, and for this court mathematician, astronomy is a quest for some form of divine order.

Fiction/Literature/0-679-74370-7

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Copyright © 1997 by John Banville

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Banville, John.

The Untouchable: a novel / by John Banville.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-56092-6

1. Espionage, Soviet—Great Britain—History—20th century—Fiction.

I. Title.

PR6052.A57U58 1997

843′.914—dc21 96-49637

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