Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago.
The Kingdom is his masterpiece..
In doing so Carrere, once himself a fervent believer, questions his own faith, asks why we believe in resurrection, and what it means.
Emmanuel Carrere\'s astonishing historical epic tells the story of the mysterious beginnings of Christianity, bringing to life a distant, primeval past of strange sects, apocalyptic beliefs and political turmoil.
Like a contagion, the story will spread over the city, the country and, eventually, the world.
An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a sign of something enormous.
Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago
