Sunday's Silence: A Novel - Softcover

Nahai, Gina B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743459458 ISBN 13: 9780743459457

Publisher: Washington Square Press, 2003

Synopsis

East meets West in acclaimed author Gina B. Nahai's mesmerizing story of a journalist on a search for the truth about his father's death -- and his own past -- among the mystical, snake-handling Holy Rollers of Appalachia. When Adam Watkins, illegitimate son of ninety-year-old preacher Little Sam Jenkins, learns that his father has died from a snakebite and that a woman named Blue, a fellow handler, is being charged with murder, Adam abandons his assignment in Lebanon and goes home for the first time in twenty years. Almost immediately, he is drawn into a dark and exhilarating relationship with the purple-eyed beauty Blue. Carried to Appalachia from the mountains of Asia as the child bride of a languages professor, she is both outsider and enigma. Through Blue's and Adam's interwoven stories, Nahai brings to life a land of stunning beauty and heartrending poverty and explores both the triumph of passion over reason and the cross-cultural mysteries of faith.

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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.

About the Author

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Washington Square Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743459458
• ISBN 13: 9780743459457
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320