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Synopsis

The man of Mary, Joseph of Nazareth, is the hero of this novel; Patrick Roth gives him a story. Patrick Roth tells the outrageous story of Joseph of Nazareth as that of a doubtful, he tells of Joseph's deep faith and his disobedience against God. At the same time, "Sunrise" senses the possibility of a new beginning. Jerusalem in 70 AD: Roman troops threaten to break through the protective walls. The siege of the holy city forms the starting point of this picture-powerful novel, whose arc stretches to the time before Jesus' birth. At the heart of the events is Joseph, the man of Mary, whom the Gospels report obeying dreams when he accepted wife and child. Patrick Roth designs him a life full of tension, a drama between man and the numinous. Thirteen years after Jesus' birth, God demands an outermost sacrifice of Joseph. "Where is there justice that I understand?" he complains in the face of the ungodly will of God. Will Joseph really be able to take on this sacrifice? In cleverly interwoven passages between dream and reality, the novel penetrates into spaces of experience where supposed certainties become brittle. Patrick Roth's narrative art starts from existential experiences and testifies to an extraordinary power of language. An aesthetic experience. Literature can ride the sublime and the pathos like a starry rose - if it can. Und Roth kann es wie niemand elst.« Hubert Winkels, Die ZEIT Nominiert für den Deutschen Buchpreis 2012 www.christus-trilogie.de

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