HyssopTriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 1998 - 175 The friendship of a bishop and a self-proclaimed thief spans over 70 years in this stunning novel full of magic. "Hyssop" is an inquiry into the nature of religion, faith and belief, and into the power of moral dilemmas embedded in loving friendships and in spiritually rich but materially impoverished lives. |
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... inside and asked , " What now ? " An hour later , around eleven o'clock , we had finished cutting up his robes and stuffing the long pieces inside the statue . We had used hanger wires to push strips into the hands and feet . We had ...
... inside and asked , " What now ? " An hour later , around eleven o'clock , we had finished cutting up his robes and stuffing the long pieces inside the statue . We had used hanger wires to push strips into the hands and feet . We had ...
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... inside my hand , her face so deep inside that my fingers could touch her forehead . " Go home , " she said . On my way home I passed the Bishop's empty house . I walked across his unweeded but beautiful gardens to the small greenhouse ...
... inside my hand , her face so deep inside that my fingers could touch her forehead . " Go home , " she said . On my way home I passed the Bishop's empty house . I walked across his unweeded but beautiful gardens to the small greenhouse ...
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... inside the half - finished rooms . He had chiseled nichos into the walls . He had not gotten santos but he would have them , he said . His wife wanted them , and she would have them . “ We will have saints and angels in our home again ...
... inside the half - finished rooms . He had chiseled nichos into the walls . He had not gotten santos but he would have them , he said . His wife wanted them , and she would have them . “ We will have saints and angels in our home again ...
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