The Book and the Brotherhood

A story about love and friendship and Marxism

Many years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends “commissioned” one of their number to write a political book.

Time passes and opinions change. “Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?” Rose Curtland asks. “The brotherhood of Western intellectuals versus the book of history,” Jenkin Riderhood suggests. The theft of a wife further embroils the situation. Moral indignation must be separated from political disagreement.

Tamar Hernshaw has a different trouble and a terrible secret. Can one die of shame? In another quarter a suicide pact seems the solution. Duncan Cambus thinks that since it is a tragedy, someone must die. Someone dies. Rose, who has gone on loving without hope, at least deserves a reward.

• Author
• Iris Murdoch

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 624

• Publisher
• Penguin Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-010470-7

• EAN
• 9780140104707

• Genres
• fiction, philosophy, literature, novels, classics, contemporary, womens

• Release date
• 1989