The Man from Nazareth

In 1977, Anthony Burgess wrote a script for Franco Zeffirelli's miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth" — a large-scale and ambitious attempt to portray the entire life journey of Jesus Christ. The series received several nominations for BAFTA and Emmy awards. Two years later, Burgess adapted the script into a full-fledged novel. On its pages, the story familiar from the New Testament comes to life, and the reader is transported to ancient Judea, where biblical characters transform into ordinary people with understandable joys and sorrows, problems and dreams.