**From the bestselling author of A Ladder to the Sky--"a darkly funny
novel that races like a beating heart" (People)--comes a new novel
that plays out across all of human history: a story as precise as it is
unlimited.
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This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother
with two sons, one with his father's violence in his blood, one with his
mother's artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others
whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning.
Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand
years. They will meet again and again at different times and in
different places. From Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium and
journeying across fifty countries to a life among the stars in the
third, the world will change around them, but their destinies remain the
same. It must play out as foretold.
From the award-winning author of The Heart's Invisible Furies comes A
Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom, an epic tale of humanity. The story of
all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique,
heartbreaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling.