false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173217934m/259764.jpg 259764 5 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 a beautifully written and haunting story of colliding traditions, conflicting beliefs, and magical trans-formations. It weaves together Christian belief, classical mythology, fairy tales, Celtic lore, and the mysteries of the natural world into one of the most memorable and gripping of contemporary novels. Like Ron Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy, Lambs of God is a wildly original investigation into the nature and complexities of faith. 251786 1997 Lambs of God total:72|5:2|4:1|3:1|2:0|1:0| 72 272 94 20 4 0 false false Tue Oct 30 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Wed Aug 12 08:35:12 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 08:35:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 19:42:03 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 19:42:03 -0700 2009
Should not have worried. My mom and I don't agree on all books, but this one was a delight. This story of Carla, Margarita, I...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Wed Feb 11 22:32:48 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 22:33:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 22:16:42 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 11:32:02 -0800 2008
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