Sunday's Silence - Couverture souple

Nahai, Gina Barkhordar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0684866420 ISBN 13 : 9780684866420

Editeur : Scribner, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Gina Nahai

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Praise for Gina Nahai's CRY OF THE PEACOCK
'A highly coloured novel... the glitter of old Persia as well as the blacker ferocities and moralities of later regimes' GUARDIAN
'A haunting novel - it has considerable power. A tale of violence and splendour from a country still torn by the aftermath of ten years war with Iraq' PUBLISHING NEWS
'Gina Nahai's delicate, enchanting style acts as a veil which half reveals heartrending tragedy. Wonderful' THE BIG ISSUE
'An important novel [that] sheds light on an enigmatic part of the world' WASHINGTON POST
'Spellbinding' LA TIMES
'A remarkable achievement, reminiscent of One Hundred Years of Solitude'
KANSAS CITY
Praise for MOONLIGHT ON THE AVENUE OF FAITH
'Written in achingly beautiful prose that lingers in the mind long after the book is finished - a magnificent book'
JEWISH CHRONICLE
Praise for SUNDAY'S SILENCE
'Her descriptions are exquisite in their brutality and poverty' LA Times Book Review
'Nahai explores the enigma of charisma, opening a window on an insular world and rendering the "other" America explicable. This multi-faceted expands Nahai's fictional universe in new and curiously fitting directions' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Présentation de l'éditeur

After years reporting on the world's war-zones, Adam returns home to the wild Appalachian mountains of Kentucky to investigate the death of Little Sam Jenkins - evangelist, snake-handler, womaniser, and also his father. Ninety-year-old Little Sam was bitten by a snake his faith couldn't defeat, handed to him by one of his followers - a beautiful young Kurdish woman called Blue.
With violet eyes, red-golden hair and a reputation for being immune from earthly harm, Blue has a magic of her own, brought from the tribe she left at thirteen, and unextinguished by America and the cool reason of her husband the Professor. Irresistibly, defiantly and fatally, she is drawn to the fervour of the Appalachian Holiness snake-handlers, and then to Adam. In Adam and Blue's fierce relationship, love collides with faith, and beauty is opposed to truth, in a conflict which could destroy or redeem them.
Written in mesmerising prose, Gina Nahai's new novel spans two extraordinary cultures at different ends of the world, united only by the intensity of their beliefs and the charismatic characters at their centre.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Scribner
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0684866420
• ISBN 13: 9780684866420
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 309