Knowledge of Angels

Jill Paton Walsh, Walsh. Bantam Books, $14.95 (284pp) ISBN 978-0-553-37475-9

In the Middle Ages, a cardinal on a remote Mediterranean island tries to determine whether the appearance of a criminal and a girl raised by wolves are acts of angels in this novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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