Auf ein Miniaturbild klicken, um zu Google Books zu gelangen.
Lädt ... Drawing in the Dust (2010)von Zoe Klein
Keine Lädt ...
Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Richly layered provocative story. Beautifully written and completely absorbing. I loved it! ( ) I so did not like this book. The story was silly and the characters unbelievable. But the most insufferable was the writing: repetitive and filled with cliches. I really did not like the author's constant admiration for her own work, the "Scroll of Anatiya," which her characters praise throughout the text. The melodrama! (So many characters are "weeping.") The errors (I sincerely doubt a group of Orthodox Jews would attend the wedding of a Jewish girl and an Arab.) The bizarre ending. Really dreadful. Paige Brookstone, on a sabbatical from a separate dig with her mentor, unearths the prophet Jeremiah’s bones under an Arab couple’s home. But there are another set of remains intertwined with Jeremiah’s, and the discovery unlocks the humanity that is otherwise overlooked in a Biblical prophet. The find, while fueling a religious and racial battle in an unstable Middle East, also sparks Paige’s near lost passion for archeology and love for life. Zoe Klein’s [Drawing in the Dust] could be overlooked as just another faith-based story in a growing market. But Klein examines how faith is often deeply submerged in the psyche, uncovered only as the physical world’s debris is brushed away. Jeremiah, the quarry in Paige’s search, comes alive as a flesh-and-blood human as she discovers his long buried love love for a servant girl. His prophecy takes on new meaning as their story is sifted through the sands of time. Klein’s other accomplishment, beyond giving life to Jeremiah beyond the Bible’s pages, is her construction of another narrative, written by Anatiya, the servant girl who loved Jeremiah. Anatiya’s poetic verse, as written by Klein, sings with a rare beauty, and is so consistent with its Biblical counterpart from Jeremiah that it seems to be completely real. The result is that the Biblical and fictional characters come alive with Paige’s own faith. It’s not a stereotypical and fundamental faith, but one that is born from life. Bottom Line: Faith and religion as viewed from an ordinary perspective, in anything but an ordinary place and amid anything but ordinary circumstances. 4 bones!!!!! keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Brilliant archaeologist Page Brookstone is convinced bones speak, yet none of the ancient remnants she has unearthed during her twelve years of toiling at Israel's storied battlegrounds of Megiddo has delivered the life-altering message she so craves. Which is why the story of Ibrahim and Aisha Barakat, a young Arab couple who implore Page to excavate the grounds beneath their house in Anatot, instantly intrigues her. The Barakats claim the ghosts of two lovers haunt their home, overwhelming everyone who enters with love and desire. Ignoring the scorn of her peers, Page investigates the site, where she is seduced by an undeniable force. Once Ibrahim presents Page with hard evidence of a cistern beneath his living room, she has no choice but to uncover the secret of the spirits. It is not long before Page makes miraculous discoveries-the bones of the deeply troubled prophet Jeremiah locked in an eternal embrace with a mysterious woman named Anatiya. Buried with the entwined skeletons is a collection of Anatiya's scrolls, whose mystical words challenge centuries-old interpretations of the prophet's story and create a worldwide fervor that threatens to silence the truth about the lovers forever. Caught in a forbidden romance of her own, and under constant siege from religious zealots and ruthless critics, Page risks her life and professional reputation to deliver Anatiya's passionate message to the world. In doing so, she discovers that to preserve her future in the land of the living, she must shake off the dust of the dead and let go of her own painful past. As poignant and thought-provoking as the beloved bestsellers The Red Tent and People of the Book, Zo Klein's historically rich debut novel is a lyrical and unexpected journey that will stay with listeners forever. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder
Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
Bist das du?Werde ein LibraryThing-Autor. |