The House of Love and Prayer
- Indbinding:
- Paperback
- Sideantal:
- 216
- Udgivet:
- 22. juni 2023
- Størrelse:
- 211x138x16 mm.
- Vægt:
- 288 g.
- Ukendt - mangler pt..
Forlænget returret til d. 31. januar 2025
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- 20 timers lytning og læsning
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- 1 valgfrit digitalt ugeblad
- 20 timers lytning og læsning
- Adgang til 70.000+ titler
- Ingen binding
Abonnementet koster 75 kr./md.
Ingen binding og kan opsiges når som helst.
Beskrivelse af The House of Love and Prayer
The eight stories collected in this volume are all populated by seekers-of holiness, illumination, liberation, meaning, love. Their journeys unfold in the U.S., Israel, Poland, China, often in the very heart of the Jewish world, and are rendered with an insider''s authority. The narrative voice bringing all this to life has been described as fearlessly satiric and subversive, with a moral but not moralizing edge, equally alive to the sacred and the profane, comically absurd to the point of tragedy. From the opening story, ''The Lost Girl'' (winner of a National Magazine Award in Fiction) to ''Dead Zone'' in the closing pages of this collection, we are confronted with souls unable to rest, unable to find release, searching for their place in this life, and beyond. Between these two stories, we encounter a true believer seeking personal redemption in China (''Forbidden City''), an aged woman longing at the end of her life to find a way back to her mother (''The Plot''), and a man of faith strugg
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