My Way to Canossa

By David Brendan O'Meara

In the year 1077, an Emperor brings his family to Canossa, where he kneels in the snow outside a castle to beg forgiveness from a Pope. In 2009, in the middle of a worldwide economic crisis, an American history buff rents a minivan so he can join them.

Thoroughly absurd and yet all-too-real, My Way to Canossa weaves together several sad, darkly comic tales that unfold amid the reactionary politics and technological transformations of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

My Way to Canossa isn't an historical novel of the Middle Ages. It's a novel about the uses and misuses of history - about the construction and consumption of narratives - and about the very high costs of making the past fit into the present.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1985161893
• ISBN13: 9781985161894
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"