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Sophia House : a novel / Michael D. O'Brien.

O'Brien, Michael D. (Michael David), 1948- (author.)
ISBN 9781621641179
Paperbound edition.
Publicerad: San Francisco : Ignatius Press, 2015
Copyright: ©2005
Engelska 488 pages
Serie: Children of the last days
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  • Sophia House is set in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Pawel Tarnowski, a bookseller, gives refuge to David Schäfer, a Jewish youth who has escaped from the ghetto, and hides him in the attic of the book shop. Throughout the winter of 1942-43, haunted by the looming threat of discovery, they discuss good and evil, sin and redemption, literature and philosophy, and their respective religious views of reality. Decades later, David becomes a convert to Catholicism, and is the Carmelite priest Fr. Elijah Schäfer called by the Pope to confront the Anti-Christ in Michael O'Brien's best-selling novel, Father Elijah: an Apocalypse. In this "prequel", the author explores the meaning of love, religious identity, and sacrifice viewed from two distinct perspectives. The cast of characters also includes the notorious Count Smokrev, a literate Nazi Major, a French novelist, a terrifying Polish bear, the Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev, and Pawel's beloved Kahlia, the elusive figure who moves through the story as an unseen presence. As the story unfolds, the loss of spiritual fatherhood in late Western society is revealed as a problem of language in the heart and soul, and as one of the gravest crises of our times. The story points the way to rediscovery of our Father in heaven, and also shows us the path to renewal of human fatherhood. This is a novel about small choices that shift the balance of the world. 

Ämnesord

World War, 1939-1945  -- Europe, Eastern -- Fiction. (LCSH)
Booksellers and bookselling  -- Fiction. (LCSH)
Jews  -- Fiction. (LCSH)
Christian converts  -- Fiction. (LCSH)
Booksellers and bookselling.  (fast)
Christian converts.  (fast)
Jews.  (fast)
Poland  -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 -- Fiction. (LCSH)
Poland  -- Fiction. (LCSH)
Eastern Europe.  (fast)
Poland.  (fast)
1939-1945  (fast)

Genre

Fiction.  (fast)
History.  (fast)

Konferensnamn

Occupation of Poland (1939-1945)
World War (1939-1945)

Klassifikation

823/.914 (DDC)
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