ParadiseKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 24 lip 2007 - 320 The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem. |
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... fathers , who had fought the world , they could not ( would not ) be less than the Old Fathers who had outfoxed it ; who had not let danger or natural evil keep them from cutting Haven out of mud and who knew enough to seal their ...
... father saved in secret for two harvests ; the light in his mother's eyes when she stroked its seal collar . The surprise party he and his brothers threw for a sister's sixteenth birthday . Yet here , not twenty miles away from a quiet ...
... father and his son , are not smiling , although when they first enter the chapel they feel like it because it was true : graven idols were worshipped here . Tiny men and women in white dresses and capes of blue and gold stand on little ...
... father walks the aisle checking the pews right and left . He runs a frond of light from his Black & Decker under each seat . The knee rests are turned up . At the altar he pauses . One window of pale yellow floats above him in the ...
... father beams the wall below the yellow window where , just barely , the sun announces . The outline of a huge cross comes into view . Clean as new paint is the space where there used to be a Jesus . The brothers approaching the cellar ...