Pilgrim

Pilgrim

Author: Timothy Findley
Desc: Ageless. Sexless. Deathless. Timeless. Pilgrim is a man who cannot die an astounding character in a novel of the cataclysmic contest between creation and destruction. Pilgrim is Timothy Findley’s latest masterwork a finalist for the Giller Prize and a national bestseller that has smashed the author’s own impressive sales records. Recently published in the US Pilgrim is gathering rave reviews and will be released in the UK this spring. It is 1912 and Pilgrim has been admitted to the Burghölzli Psychiatric Clinic in Zürich Switzerland having failed—once again—to commit suicide. Over the next two years it is up to Carl Jung self-professed mystical scientist of the mind to help Pilgrim unlock his unconsciousness etched as it is with myriad sufferings and hopes of history. Is Pilgrim mad or is he condemned to live forever witness to the terrible tragedy and beauty of the human condition? Both intimate and expansive in its scope with an absorbing parade of characters—mythic fictional and historical—Pilgrim is a fiercely original and powerful story from one of our most distinguished artists.