Different Sun, A: A Novel of Africa - Softcover

Orr, Elaine Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425261301 ISBN 13: 9780425261309

Publisher: BERKLEY - US, 2013

Synopsis

When Emma Davis reads the words of Isaiah 6:8 in her room at a Georgia women's college, she understands her true calling: to become a missionary. It is a leap of faith that sweeps her away to Africa in an odyssey of personal discovery, tremendous hardship and profound transformation. Her life in Africa is utterly unlike her sheltered childhood and so is her new husband Henry. Together they experience tragedy and heartbreak as well as joy. A tale of spiritual and social awakening and a meditation on faith, freedom and desire.

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Review:

'A tale of social and spiritual awakening; a dispatch from a difficult era at home and abroad; and a meditation on faith, freedom, and desire, A Different Sun is a captivating fiction debut.' - Fantastic Fiction (10 July)

'Emma's story unfolds in a series of scenes of the trials and triumphs of missionary life... belief and conscience are the driving forces behind Orr s characters.' --- Historical Novel Society (July)

About the Author:

Elaine Neil Orr is professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh where she teaches world literature and creative writing. She also serves on the faculty of the brief-residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University in Louisville. Author of two scholarly books and the memoir, Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life, she has been a featured speaker and writer-in-residence at numerous universities and conferences and is a frequent fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She grew up in Nigeria.

About this edition

• Publisher: BERKLEY - US
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0425261301
• ISBN 13: 9780425261309
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 388