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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"Chicago Tribune"
A bold, passionate tale of fanaticism and seduction. Sensitively and vividly rendered. Exotic, mythic, a tale told by a Scheherazade.
"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Sunday's Silence" is exactly the kind of book that Americans need to be reading right now, a book in which East and West collide, not only in war but in love.
"Los Angeles Times"
Exquisite....Nahai is especially adroit in her storytelling...Because [she] is not interested in sensationalizing....extreme religious notions, Sunday's Silence demands that we pay them attention and lets us understand a little bit better their powerful lure.
"Chicago Tribune"A bold, passionate tale of fanaticism and seduction. Sensitively and vividly rendered. Exotic, mythic, a tale told by a Scheherazade.
"San Francisco Chronicle""Sunday's Silence" is exactly the kind of book that Americans need to be reading right now, a book in which East and West collide, not only in war but in love.
"Los Angeles Times"Exquisite....Nahai is especially adroit in her storytelling...Because [she] is not interested in sensationalizing....extreme religious notions, Sunday's Silence demands that we pay them attention and lets us understand a little bit better their powerful lure.
"Chicago Tribune" A bold, passionate tale of fanaticism and seduction. Sensitively and vividly rendered. Exotic, mythic, a tale told by a Scheherazade.
"Los Angeles Times" Exquisite....Nahai is especially adroit in her storytelling...Because [she] is not interested in sensationalizing....extreme religious notions, Sunday's Silence demands that we pay them attention and lets us understand a little bit better their powerful lure.
"San Francisco Chronicle" "Sunday's Silence" is exactly the kind of book that Americans need to be reading right now, a book in which East and West collide, not only in war but in love.
Gina Nahai lives in Beverly Hills with her husband and 3 children. She is the author of THE CRY OF THE PEACOCK and MOONLIGHT ON THE AVENUE OF FAITH (long-listed for the Orange Prize). Her next novel, SUNDAY'S SILENCE, is scheduled for publication in Spring 2002.
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