The Burning Bush

Sigrid Undset

ISBN 10: 1949899950 / ISBN 13: 9781949899955

Published by Touchladybirdlucky Studios Apr 2019, 2019

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Neuware - The Burning Bush, the second volume of Nobel Prize-winning Sigrid Undset's novel The Winding Road, continues the story of Paul Selmer. His reception into the Catholic Church brings not peace, but conflict, into Paul's life. The world plunges into the Great War and then begins to rebuild; Paul's business swings between success to failure and his marriage starts to succumb to its wounds. Yet conversion is not a single, enclosed event, but a measured process of the heart's return to God.Neither mouthpiece nor mere symbol of the modern temperament, the character of Paul Selmer is a living, authentic product of art, planted firmly in the fertile soil of authentic experience. What she began in The Wild Orchid Undset masterfully completes in The Burning Bush, cultivating the seeds of grace and bringing them to full flower with devoted patience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Burning Bush
• Publisher: Touchladybirdlucky Studios Apr 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1949899950
• ISBN 13: 9781949899955
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 222W x 145H x 27D millimeters 222 millimeters width by 145 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 701 grams

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Synopsis

The Burning Bush, the second volume of Nobel Prize-winning Sigrid Undset’s novel The Winding Road, continues the story of Paul Selmer. His reception into the Catholic Church brings not peace, but conflict, into Paul’s life. The world plunges into the Great War and then begins to rebuild; Paul’s business swings between success to failure and his marriage starts to succumb to its wounds. Yet conversion is not a single, enclosed event, but a measured process of the heart’s return to God.

Neither mouthpiece nor mere symbol of the modern temperament, the character of Paul Selmer is a living, authentic product of art, planted firmly in the fertile soil of authentic experience. What she began in The Wild Orchid Undset masterfully completes in The Burning Bush, cultivating the seeds of grace and bringing them to full flower with devoted patience.

About the Author

Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) was a Norwegian novelist and essayist and a convert to Catholicism. Her work is renowned for its realism and poignancy, and she is best known for her three-volume novel Kristin Lavransdatter. In 1928, Undset was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.