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The Testament Of Mary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary is the moving story of the Virgin Mary told by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the familyFrom the author of Brooklyn in a voice that is both tender and filled with rage The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief For Mary her son has been lost to the world and now living in exile and in fear she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death To her he was a vulnerable figure surrounded by men who could not be trusted living in a time of turmoil and change As her life and her suffering begin to acquire the resonance of myth Mary struggles to break the silence surrounding what she knows to have happened In her
effort to tell the truth in all its gnarled complexity she slowly emerges as a figure of immense moral stature as well as a woman from history rendered now as fully humanPraise for The Testament of Mary'This is a short book but it is as dense as a diamond It is as tragic as a Spanish pieta but it is completely hereticalToibin maintains all the dignity of Mary without subscribing to the myths that have accumulated around her' Edmund White Irish Times'Depicting the harrowing losses and evasions that can go on between mothers and sonsToibin creates a reversed Pieta he holds the mother in his arms' Independent 'A beautiful and daring workit takes its power from the surprise of its language its almost shocking characterization' Mary Gordon New York Times
effort to tell the truth in all its gnarled complexity she slowly emerges as a figure of immense moral stature as well as a woman from history rendered now as fully humanPraise for The Testament of Mary'This is a short book but it is as dense as a diamond It is as tragic as a Spanish pieta but it is completely hereticalToibin maintains all the dignity of Mary without subscribing to the myths that have accumulated around her' Edmund White Irish Times'Depicting the harrowing losses and evasions that can go on between mothers and sonsToibin creates a reversed Pieta he holds the mother in his arms' Independent 'A beautiful and daring workit takes its power from the surprise of its language its almost shocking characterization' Mary Gordon New York Times
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