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From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book-at once fiction, history, and memoir-that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a twentieth-century story.
Shifting seamlessly from the past to the present and following the routes of escape across countries and continents, Muñoz Molina evokes people real and imagined who come together in a richly allusive pattern-from Eugenia Ginsburg to Grete Buber-Neumann, the one on a train to the gulag, the other to a Nazi concentration camp; from a shoemaker and a nun who become lovers in a small town in Spain to Primo Levi bound for Auschwitz. And others-some well known, others unknown-all voices of separation, nostalgia, love, and endless waiting.
Written with clarity of vision and passion, in a style both lyrical and accessible, Sepharad makes the experience our own.
A brilliant achievement.
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A poignant refection on totalitarianism and exile.......2006-12-02
Sepharad is a thoughtful and poignant embodiment of the consequences of totalitarianism in various forms in 20th century Europe, of the exile from roots and from the self that totaiatrinism creates, and of exile in general. Technically it is remarkable for fluid changes of point of view. In the same page a character may be called he, ("He watched us from his balcony", I, ("I returned to my balcony...") and you ("You look down form your balcony on the family across the street.") - all so smoothly I hardly noticed it. This technique echoes the theme of the vulnerability of identity
Uplifting stories of exile and loss.......2004-06-26
Munoz Molina has crafted an utterly brilliant novel that weaves a number of different stories together into a tapestry both sad beyond words and strangely uplifting. His work evoked memories of Solzhenitsyn's finest passages about life in Satlin's camps. Munoz Molina demonstrates how the human spirit can rise above degredation and despair to find dignity and hope. A wonderful achievement.
A Profound Achievement.......2004-05-19
I've never read anything quite like Sepharad. I thought a bit about W.G. Sebald's work while reading this wonderful book, however, Munoz Molina -- or his exceptional translator -- is more of a poet. The stories that comprise this novel are all about displacement -- enforced and circumstantial -- in a way that is clearly unique to post-WW II Europe. They are stories of wandering while standing still. I was very moved by the book and intend to recommend it to all of the intelligent readers in my world.
We Are of a Time and Place.......2004-03-07
Sepharad is a collection of chapters that make us question who we are in this time and this place. The poetic lyricism of the language is mesmerizing, pulling us back and forth from the 1940s to the present day, to the 1600s, to the early 20th Century. We jump from Spain, to New York, to Russia, to Paris following the Jewish diaspora over the centuries. There is no timeline to restrict us.
We are reminded of Kafka's Metamorphosis in which Gregor wakes up one morning as a giant bug; not the same being as the day before. We are reminded of Kafka's Trial in which the accused is never informed of his crime, other than the crime of being born. Are we the same person today as yesterday or the one we will be tomorrow?
My only regret is that I cannot read this book in the original Spanish. The translation is sheer poetry; the original must be a song.
Love, Suffering and Loss.......2004-02-18
In this novel Munoz Molina sets out to do the impossible, to remember those who have perished in the great disasters of our century and before. As he says, "Love, suffering, even some of the greatest hells on Earth are erased after one or two generations, and a day comes when there is not one living witness who can remember."
The narrator begins with his own story, but soon he is encompassing the lives and memories of both historical and fictional characters. Primo Levy makes an appearance, as does Franz Kafka. What they all have in common is having endured suffering and loss.
Sometimes the narrator addresses himself, sometimes he takes on another's identity to see better through his or her eyes. "YOU ARE," he says late in the novel, "ANYONE AND NO ONE, the person you invent or remember and the person others invent or remember."
Fiction, history and memoir thus blend together over time and space. The novel is structured in a series of chapters, each of which deals with either the narrator or another character. The Holocaust is a major theme, as are the Stalinist purges and the Separdic diaspora, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella.
At times, especially in the beginning, it's hard to keep track of the different speakers, but gradually the methodology becomes clear and the different narratives come together in the narrator's voice to form an effective and very moving whole. Ultimately, then, this is a lyrical, questioning, anguished novel that suggests that any attempt to pay homage to the suffering of the dead is only temporarily successful.
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Forbidden love, sibling rivalry, and the immigrant experience in New York City: these are just some of the themes packed into Bharti Kirchner's Darjeeling. As the novel opens, 40-year-old Aloka stares out her apartment window in midtown Manhattan, contemplating the end of her marriage to Pranab--a man she met in her homeland of India. The lost marriage, like the lost country, fills her with nostalgia and angry confusion. Soon the reader learns the source of Aloka's bitterness: her sister's affair with her husband, a scandal that propelled her to this distant city with its "gray-brown bustle." Chapters alternate between the two sisters' lives, and Kirchner renders the passions of both women with empathy and grace. At the heart of Darjeeling is the question of the broken bond: will the sisters be able to cross the emotional and geographic distances that separate them? --Ellen Williams
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Set in the mountainous tea plantations of Darjeeling, India, and Manhattan, Darjeeling is the story of a family torn apart when two sisters fall in love with the same man, Pranab. Pranab loves Sujata, the awkward, younger sister but, out of obligation, marries Aloka, the beautiful, older sister. When all of their secrets are re-vealed, the three are forced to leave Darjeeling. The story opens ten years later, when their grandmother summons everyone home to the family tea plantation to celebrate her birthday. Aloka and Pranab are getting a divorce, but, unfortunately, noth-ing else has changed. Pranab still loves Sujata. Sujata and Aloka still love Pranab.
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Disappointing.......2007-01-22
First of all, I have to say that I love books about India and Indian culture. Some of my favorites include The Namesake, The Space Between Us, and Serving Crazy with Curry. So I had high hopes for Darjeeling.
I have to say though, it was a disappointing experience. The dialogue in the book was completely unconvincing. It bounced back and forth without any feel of a real conversation. Either the vocabulary came off sounding haughty or the sentiments came out sounding forced. And on top of that, it was supposed to be this sweeping family saga that spanned 10 years and involved betrayal, a family dynasty, and the westernization of two young women. Yet everything that these two sisters had gone through miraculously got resolved in one afternoon while baking together. It was just so unrealistic, over-simplified and totally dissatisfying. If you're looking for an easy, formulaic read, then this might be the book for you. Otherwise, I don't recommend it at all. Try one of the other books that I mentioned earlier in my review!
Very good book.......2006-06-20
i love this book, it has a mixture of both the American/Canadian and Indian culture. Both sisters in this book are very intelligent. They share the same culture as women of India, but they are from different worlds. One sister is adventurous living in Canada, and the other sister is very accomplished living in New York...an amazing book!
Delicious, sensitive, and contemplative.......2006-01-27
The author explores the soul of two sisters in this wise and witty novel. Her descriptions alone would have made it. I recommend reading this novel with a good cup of tea.
Writing at its worst.......2006-01-22
This book should be assigned in creative writing classes. Grammar errors, lifeless characters, stilted dialogue, misused adjectivies -- a case study on how NOT to write a novel.
TimePass.......2005-08-10
The book has nothing special to offer. Its a quick and mindless read. I could not identify with the characters at all. The two female protagonists are way too silly and naive, given their respective ages. The male protagonist is unappealing from the beginning. The book left me feeling devoid of any new or fresh perspective. In brief, if your stuck in a coffee house and need to pass time without thinking too much, you can perhaps grab a copy.
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The further adventures of Cherijo, a genetically-enhanced human engineered to be the model of perfection-if she can survive....
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Disappointing.......2004-02-29
I think Veihl is trying to keep the readers here, and answer as many questions as she can in this book, before they start to lose interest. It feels like too much is put in, and simultaneously not enough.
This is darker than the previous two novels, as Cherijo becomes a slave for reptilian creatures. Throughout it seems that Duncan, her on-and-off-again lover, is frankly evil, and in league with the slavetraders. And his evil nature is never adequately resolved in the book. He is supposed to have this amazing telepathy with Cherijo- and yet he never uses it once to explain his actions to her, and there is never once an explanation as to why he doesn't! Veihl throws everything together literally in the last chapter, and acts like everything is fixed. It is, if you don't understand human nature, philosophy, or basic psychology. Which is disappointing, considering how well characters have been painted and built up in the previous two novels.
I don't want to read extensive litanies of torture (of which there are several) or detailed descriptions of bizarre sexual practices. I'd like to explore beliefs and philosophies- something science fiction is an ideal medium for. But in this book, I am trying to figure out why in the world Cherijo is making the choices she is, and why the author doesn't realize that these choices don't bear semblance to reality. I think the only way they can is if it turns out in the last book that Cherijo's psychology has been substantially altered along with her genetic code. So I'll read the fourth book, to find out if this is explained, and what happens to Cherijo. But I'm looking forward to it with less relish.
Cherijo is in trouble again!.......2003-11-26
Third novel in the StarDoc series. Now we find Cherijo Grey Veil Torin taken captive by the Hsktskt's, on their way to a trade port that deals in selling slaves. She is branded and made slave to OverMaster HalaVar, who is not a true Hsktskt but her own husband Duncan Reever.
Under his protection she is allowed to serve on the HskTskt ship as a medical doctor, and along the way discovers a strange disease among the league prisoners that kills without leaving behind any traces except a resemblance to spinal meningitis.
This series is best started at the first book, StarDoc, and followed through in its sequence. The first two novels, StarDoc and Beyond Varallan are much better than Viehl's third effort here. Although I still give it four stars for the quality of characterization and imagination in dreaming up new species, Viehl's plot in this sequel falls flat compared to the other two.
I became a little bored with the repetitive "catch and release" theme that seemed to dominate here: she's working in medical, a bad guy takes her to solitary (or torture) Reever rescues her, she goes back to medical, a bad guy takes her to solitary (or torture), Reever rescues her, and so on and so on.
This plotline cycled through itself way too many times in this follow-up in Cherijo's journeys, but I like the character so much I was willing to cycle with her. I am now reading the fourth installment and have both confidence and hope that Viehl will not repeat the weak plot mistake she made in this book.
All in all, the series is an extremely imaginative and fun romp through space with odd aliens and medical disasters and action packed thrills, just consider this third in the series a break from the norm. Enjoy!
Good! 'Spunkiness' over the top in parts........2003-01-07
Endurance is the third novel in S.L Vieh's fantastic Stardoc Series, featuring the trials of Doctor Cherijo Jorin. This latest installment, sees Cherijo captured on a slave world betrayed by her ex husband, emotionless, cold-hearted Reever. This novel was an emotional roller-coaster ride, as Cherijo, now being forced to minister to the sick and injured, is universally reviled by her captors, the other slaves, and her would-be friends.
As per most romance novel heroines, Cherjo goes through a lot in order to make everyone liker her. Despite this its not enough. Throughout the book, she is beaten, abused, harassed assaulted and tortured, and almost eaten. The man who loves her remains emotionally detached and (seemingly) distant.
While the beatings, torture and maiming were incredibly distasteful, Cherijo's reaction (wise-cracking comments, snappy come-backs, and karate punches), made some of the scenes unrealistically comical instead of serious. I would like to have seen Cherijo use her brain, for once, and THINK before acting. Instead, half the time, Cherijo charges into danger half-cocked like Don Quixote on his donkey forcing half of the male crew to rescue her. (Please girl! This is a sci-fi, not a bodice ripper!)
I know, I'm making some negative comments, but I really did like the book. Viehl writes in a way that makes you overlook the fact that there isn't a /huge/ amount of substance to the middle portion of the novel, and that parts of the plotline are largely repetitive. I recommend this book for fans of the series, although there wasn't a huge amount of character development until the end.
This series continues with "Shockball" the latest Stardoc novel.
No, Read It--Really.......2002-10-17
This third StarDoc novel, which finds Cherijo Torin enslaved by the Hsktskt Faction, succeeds almost in spite of itself. The basic problem is that it should never have happened. In StarDoc, Duncan Reever told Cherijo that being named designate for a Hsktskt infant "virtually guarantees you'll never be taken as a Hsktskt slave." Agreed, "virtually" isn't the same as "absolutely," but it's close enough so that only a serious crime against the Faction should trigger such a fate. All Cherijo did was negotiate a trade-the safety of Joren's inhabitants in exchange for the easy capture of an entire League military fleet. The Hsktskt admit the undamaged fleet is a major prize. So TssVar demotes his child's godmother to slave status for handing him this prize? Not likely. Viehl's disregard of her own back-story here makes it harder for readers to trust anything she writes.
Regular romantic fiction readers may find no complaints beyond Endurance's basic premise. Those who prefer their protagonists smart, savvy, and quick on the uptake will find part of the plot very frustrating. Despite all they've been through together, Cherijo has now arbitrarily pegged Duncan as a bad guy without so much as a "you owe me an explanation." This is a convention often used in books with torrid covers of Fabio clutching a chesty female in long skirts. Readers know the heroine will torture herself interminably for loving a monster, disregarding mounting evidence to the contrary. At no point will either she or said monster insist on simply talking it all out. Cherijo supposedly has a genetically enhanced brain, but it doesn't show here. Viehl can do better. Her readers-and characters-deserve better.
Luckily for everyone involved, Viehl does do better in much of Endurance. The star-crossed-love theme runs its full course, but isn't the whole story. As Cherijo adjusts to slave life, first aboard ship and then at the slave depot on Catopsa, she resumes medical duties by tending to her fellow captives. Since she got them into this mess, her life's as much at risk from them as from her captors. The pangs of tortured love pale beside the tale's almost casual physical brutality and occasional bodily torture. When push comes to shove, Cherijo morphs back into the protagonist of previous books-a diminutive Arnold Schwarzenegger, only with better gag writers. The action sequences are fast-paced, creative, and leavened with humor. Along the way, Cherijo gains new information about the mysterious Maggie and about herself.
Even at the darkest points, there's reason to hope. Cherijo's old pal Alunthri is back. She earns the grudging respect of some League captives, and makes friends among the slaves on Catopsa. Then there's Noarr, a slave runner of unknown species who becomes more than friendly. Other allies appear from unexpected quarters. The cavalry appears in the nick of time.
Viehl's basic writing skills continue to improve, though sentence structure remains a problem for her. Both of her extended attempts at dialect will annoy some readers.
Awesome sequel of a sequel.......2001-08-12
Wow... wow.... wow... There are really no words I can say about the awesomeness of this book. This is just so kewl. I can't wait for the fourth book. This author kick major cutie booty!!
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Brilliant and original,
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia,
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose.
“Immortality,” winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for new writers, tells the story of a young man who bears a striking resemblance to a dictator and so finds a calling to immortality. In “The Princess of Nebraska,” a man and a woman who were both in love with a young actor in China meet again in America and try to reconcile the lost love with their new lives.
“After a Life” illuminates the vagaries of marriage, parenthood, and gender, unfolding the story of a couple who keep a daughter hidden from the world. And in “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” in which a man visits America for the first time to see his recently divorced daughter, only to discover that all is not as it seems, Li boldly explores the effects of communism on language, faith, and an entire people, underlining transformation in its many meanings and incarnations.
These and other daring stories form a mesmerizing tapestry of revelatory fiction by an unforgettable writer.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Ten Perfect Jewels.......2007-07-31
Warning: Begin reading "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" at the BEGINNING of a weekend. If you wait till Sunday afternoon, you may find yourself skipping work on Monday, because you can't put it down. Yiyun Lee is a gifted story teller and an artist of the written word. Each of the ten stories in this collection is a perfect jewel.
Just the kind of short stories I always look for and rarely find.......2007-07-16
This is the best collection of short stories I've read in a long time! I love the style of writing---very straightforward but also with so much meaning in every paragraph. Lately it seems every piece of fiction I read is gimmacky in some way--constantly changing perspectives, flowery phrases--but this is real writing, about people in tough situations interacting, about generations relating, about sad memories, but always with a firm grasp of reality. By the first paragraph of each story I know the main characters! I think this author will go far, and I look forward to reading more by her.
Deserves a place among thte classics.......2007-06-04
I picked up this book at the airport while waiting for my plane. I've never heard about Yiyun Li before, but now I can't wait to read her first novel which I've heard will be coming out sometime soon. Yiyun Li is a real master of a short story, her writing is beautiful, passionate, sincere and very deep. This book is a rare find, that will stay in the reader's heart forever.
This book is terrible.......2006-10-11
Some background, I grew up in Beijing and attended good schools just like her, and I am much older than her. The point? She has no experience whatsoever - everything she wrote about the past was from wild imaginations, almost anything related to Mao and communists was far from the truth.
The worst part of the book is the deep brown-nosed kissing the American *** in the expense of demonizing her own and my home country, China. America this and America that. As if once you come to America, everything would be immediately nice and dandy. The fact is if you cannot thrive in China, you cannot thrive in America either. Why? Because in China, you can at least rely on your parents and relatives, but in America, you must fight all the way by youself, not to mention there's Green Card issue and many foreigners have been forced to leave America because of it.
The worst part is:
"If you grew up in a language that you never used to express your feelings, it would be easier to take another language (English, of course) and talk more in the new language. It makes you a new person." - A Thousand Year's Good Prayer
I don't know which part of China or earth she's from, but hell, I have no problem expressing my feelings either in Chinese or English. It does not matter we are talking about feelings, politics or philosophy.
To me, she got a big brown nose, which makes her writting really bad.
I gave it two stars just because she's a chinese and willing to try to write in English.
The only $ I wasted so far on Amazon.
Compelling short stories.......2006-09-17
I first found Ms. Li's short story, Immortality, in the Paris Review. She frames a story around a rural Chinese village's tradition of sending castrated young men (the euphemism she uses is "cleaned") to the imperial palace to serve as eunuchs. Fast forward to the Cultural Revolution, the story shifts focus to a young man with the likeness of the country's dictator (it can be inferred that she is speaking of Mao Tse-Tung). The surprise is how she weaves present with past to reveal stories of China.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is full of such beautifully rendered stories.
In Princess of Nebraska, a Chinese man and a Mongolian woman traverse time and space in a quiet Michigan cafe while pondering their past relationship to the same man, Yang, a blithe narcissistic Beijing youth with a gift for singing Beijing opera.
In Love in the Marketplace, an English teacher in a rural village ponders a promise broken by two of the most important people in her life - her childhood sweetheart and her best girlfriend.
In story after story, the reader finds disappointment and a trail of hearts broken by modern life's adversities, lies, and unfulfilled dreams. The language of the book adds to an unadorned tone that is at once mercilessly unforgiving in description of human life and deeply sentimental and non-judgmental of the characters. Highly recommended!
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With the coming of the second millennium, editors Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon felt that words of hope might be the perfect antidote to the fearful rumblings of doom, apocalyptic predictions, and computer-induced chaos. And so the duo sent out invitations asking people to offer a written message or prayer to the future. The final result is a body of work that offers a compelling and positive vision for the millennium. Contributors include Reverend Desmond M. Tutu, Poland's Lech Walesa, Thomas Moore, Judy Chicago, Alice Walker, death row inmate Jarvis Jay Masters, Rabbi Zalman Scater-Shalomi, and poets Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, and Diane Ackerman.
The collection is organized around relevant themes, such as "Creating Communities of Peace," "For the Children," and "This Holy Earth." Each offering is no more than two pages long--brief enough for a quick dip whenever inspiration is needed. Nonetheless, this is collection with spiritual sustenance, a book that many will benefit from carrying close to their hearts in the years ahead. --Gail Hudson
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In Prayers for a Thousand Years, Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon have collected hundreds of wishes, blessings, stories, and challenges-almost all written especially for this volume-from a diverse group of distinguished international contributors. Spiritual teachers, poets and activists, political leaders, youth, artists and visionaries-all are joined together here for the first time, sharing their personal appeals for peace and understanding. Organized around eternal themes-such as creating communities of peace, reflections on politics, economics, and morality, and our holy earth-this book is a profound and lively collection of empowering visions for our common future and a celebration of the infinite variations of universal hope.
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Prayers for Many Ages - For the World, and for Daily Life.......2005-09-07
I have found this a wonderful collection to use at mealtime with adults in our family, or friends; but I have also found that many of the prayers speak to our teenage son. They are oriented toward hopes for healing in the world, but also contain prayers to sustain us in our daily living as we seek to be of use. I plan to use the book in my Unitarian Universalist ministry this year, both with adults and with young people. Many of the prayers are very moving.
Rev. Dr. Barbara Whittaker-Johns, Arlington, MA 9/7/05
I,m giving this book to everyone on my Christmas list.......2001-11-17
My dentist had this book in his waiting room. It was September ll, 2001 and when I turned to a page at random it spoke directly to me as nothing else had, especially on that day. I will give this to everyone I know, it is a beautiful and inspiring and profound collection. Wonderful!
This collection proves there is hope for the future!.......1999-10-09
People today are recognizing the need and the benefits of incorporating more prayer and devotion into their everyday lives. This book, along with the editor's previous works, Earth Prayers and Life Prayers provides people with a multicultural array of poems, prayers, chants, blessings, and other types of inspiration to further enrich your life.
This collection focuses primarily on the coming millennium. The editors actually sent out a call to others to contribute their thoughts to this volume. So, unlike previous works, this collection is focused mainly on the words of people living today, whereas the other volumes, contained wisdom from the past as well as the present.
What makes this book even more precious, is that world leaders such as Desmond TuTu and Vaclav Havel, stand here side by side with other great thinkers, poets, religious leaders and visionaries. But also tapped, are relative unknowns, nuns, alternative communities, community leaders, singers/songwriters, poets, teachers, etc. providing a huge melting-pot of profound thoughts and wisdom.
These reflections are subdivided in categories such as: hope for the future, opening hearts, this moment in time, creating peaceful communities, one about children, the earth, solidarity and justice, politics, economics and morality, parables of our time, and we the people.
Instead of dwelling on decay and apocalypse, why not see the hope the future has to offer an enlightened civilization? This book is a breath of fresh air amidst the glut of negative material out there concerning the turn of the century. To the editors...thank you for providing us with continued inspirations.
5 Starts to the Millineth Power!!.......1999-05-09
This Project was the most thoughtful, insightful, motivating peace of art I've come across in a long time. I was almsot ready to give up hope being tangled in this world wide Web, but I'm relieved to see a brighter, more hopeful, and I'm looking for ward to this Celebration of Resolution soon. THANK YOU's both!! Love Spring~
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The Psalms Through 3000 Years.......2007-03-10
The book arrived in a timely manner in excellent condition.
The Psalms Through Three Thousand Years: Prayerbook of a Cloud of Witnesses.......2007-01-03
To be in touch with our Christian tradition and pray with them understanding the meening of them in our live.
Splendid!.......2006-05-18
This is a wonderful book for those with an interest in almost any aspect of the psalter. It is practically 3 books in one. The first discusses the development, writing and eventual canonization of the psalms. The second discusses the historical use of the psalms by Jews, Catholics and Protestants. The third discusses modern uses and the theological underpinnings of those uses. It is a wonderful resource.
It is written on a level that any competent adult should be able to understand. Background material is given in sufficient abundance that the reader is not left wondering about the context of statements made. Assertions are backed up with concrete examples.
The author knows his material. He was an ordained Protestant pastor who later converted to Roman Catholicism. He has worked as an actual translator of biblical materials and knows the language and linguistic nuances of the psalms. He communicates the shifts in understandings and presents alternate readings.
In summation, this is a first rate work accessible by anyone.
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The Lord's Prayer: The Prayer That Jesus Taught Two Thousand Years Ago
Lois Rock
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Yiyun Li
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captivating.......2007-09-03
Enoumously enjoyable read. If you like short stories that will grip YOU, enthrall YOU, & "will you" back begging for more.....
Creatively written in an intellectual frame. I so enjoyed Yiyun Li's written imaginary thoughts. So different than I think; yet "the same".
Product Description
Author Yiyun Li writes her stories of China today in contrast to its history of repression and violence.
Books:
- Slouching Towards Kalamazoo: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction)
- Somebody's Daughter: A Novel
- Soulmates Dissipate
- Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel
- The Age of Wire and String: Stories (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
- The Art of Glass: Art Nouveau to Art Deco
- The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 1)
- The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 2)
- The Bright Forever: A Novel
- The Burning Times: A Novel
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