The Review of Contemporary Fiction, September 22nd, 2003
Trans. Elisabeth Roberts. Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003. 214 pp. $19.95. Pestilence is a novel of debauchery and religious excess set in the fourteenth century during the onset of the Black Plague. Religion is the common thread between two vying storylines as Salah Ibn al Khatib, a young Arab brought up in the cool hallways of Muslim academe, sets out across the Christian "infidel" countries of Europe to kill the king of France. Roberts alternates Salah's clashes with the corrupt and superstitious peoples of Europe with the narrative of a Welsh township called Dolbenmaen, where the end of th...
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