Sunday's Silence - Softcover

Nahai, Gina Barkhordar

3.42

195 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684866412 ISBN 13: 9780684866413

Publisher: Scribner, 2003

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* 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. After years reporting on the world's war-zones, Adam returns home to the wild Appalachian mountains of Kentucky to investigate the death of Little Sam Jenkins - evangelist, snake-handler, womaniser, and also his father. Ninety-year-old Little Sam was bitten by a snake his faith couldn't defeat, handed to him by one of his followers - a beautiful young Kurdish woman called Blue. With violet eyes, red-golden hair and a reputation for being immune from earthly harm, Blue has a magic of her own, brought from the tribe she left at thirteen, and unextinguished by America and the cool reason of her husband the Professor. Irresistibly, defiantly and fatally, she is drawn to the fervour of the Appalachian Holiness snake-handlers, and then to Adam. In Adam and Blue's fierce relationship, love collides with faith, and beauty is opposed to truth, in a conflict which could destroy or redeem them. Written in mesmerising prose, Gina Nahai's new novel spans two extraordinary cultures at different ends of the world, united only by the intensity of their beliefs and the charismatic characters at their centre.

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Review:

"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.

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