From the author of the mesmerising MOONLIGHT ON THE AVENUE OF FAITH, long-listed for the Orange Prize, comes an unforgettable story about religious fervour and extreme love The haunting story of Blue, married at fourteen to a professor twenty-seven years her senior, she enters the society of the Holiness Serpent Handlers of Appalachia, a society of religious extremes and cruelty, of mystery and faith. A society where people spend their free-time searching for large, poisonous snakes to dance with at their religious meetings. Over the years, Blue becomes a High Priestess of the Serpent Handlers, frightened of nothing, she desperately risks her life by drinking poison and handling the most poisonous of the snakes in the hope that she might find peace she craves.
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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
L'autore:
Gina Nahai lives in Beverly Hills with her husband and three children. She is the author of THE CRY OF THE PEACOCK and MOONLIGHT ON THE AVENUE OF FAITH.
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- EditoreScribner
- Data di pubblicazione2002
- ISBN 10 0684866420
- ISBN 13 9780684866420
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine309
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