TY - BOOK AU - Boyne,John TI - A traveller at the Gates of Wisdom SN - 9780857526205 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - Doubleday KW - Families KW - Fiction KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Conflict of generations KW - Self-realization KW - Revenge KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft N2 - Some stories are universal. Some are unique. They play out across human history, and time is the river that flows through them.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 amongst the stars in the third, the world will change around them, but their destinies remain the same. It must play out as foretold ER -