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. 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.
