The Liars' Gospel - Hardcover

Naomi Alderman is the author of Disobedience, which won the Orange Prize for New Writers and has been published in 10 languages. She contributes regularly to the Guardian and lives in London.

PRAISE FOR NAOMI ALDERMAN'S THE LIARS' GOSPEL

"A visceral retelling of the events surrounding the life of Jesus. Her would-be messiah is a puzzling drifter marginal to his own story; the ferocity of Barabbas and Judas seizes the narrative and occupies its center ground."―Hilary Mantel, author of Bringing Up the Bodies

"By turns poetic and visceral, The Liars' Gospel liberates towering figures from the stasis of iconography, giving them psychological depth."
---Abigail Meisel, New York Times Book Review

"A novel of such intensity, meaning and depth that it must be destined to become a classic."―Bidisha, Presenter of BBC Radio Four's Saturday Review

"Head spinning perspectives on the life and times of Jesus, from a novelist who wields her pen like a sword."―More

"Vibrant descriptions....haunting prose.... Alderman transforms an ancient story into her own engaging meditation on power, oppression, and belief."―Publishers Weekly

"Superb....The best-known story of all takes on messy, intricate, surging new life when freed from its biblical shackles in Naomi Alderman's reimagining."―Victoria Moore, Daily Mail

"A provocative and fascinating retelling of one of the foundational narratives of Western culture."―Julie Subrin, Tablet Magazine

"Courageous....Alderman's revision of the Christ figure is a visceral, intelligent one, and it works superbly."―Arifa Akbar, The Independent

"Alderman re-creates with startling immediacy the culture of first-century Judea, with its political intrigue and riots, and with its characters wondering at what the life of Yehoshuah has meant to them."―Kirkus

"Provocative and mesmerizing....Alderman here succeeds magnificently....The Liars' Gospel roots its characters firmly and vividly in their historical and political context."―Rebecca Abrams, New Statesman