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Carla, ​Margarita, and Iphigenia are three nuns living in a crumbling monastery on a remote island, forgotten by time, the world, and the church. Their liturgical calendar is governed by the changing of the seasons, and by the rising and setting of the sun. Their days are spent performing a ritual of prayer and storytelling, as they knit the wool of the sheep who inhabit the monastery grounds and into whose bodies they believe their deceased sisters' souls to have entered. Then, one day, seemingly out of nowhere, a priest appears. Hoping to rise in the church hierarchy, he has presented plans to his bishop to convert what he believes is an uninhabited and valuable piece of church property into a spa for the wealthy-and he has come to investigate the land. Father Ignatius is as surprised to see the nuns as they are to see a flesh-and-blood man, and what follows is the strange, moving, and often hilarious story of their struggle-a struggle of wills, but also of faith. Lambs of God is… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1998

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Riverhead, New York, 1999
336 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9781573227223
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Anchor, 1998
336 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 1862300178
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Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 1998
272 oldal · ISBN: 9781864486964

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