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Belgian author Anne Provoost has taken a familiar Bible story and created an epic so panoramic that we see this long vanished world through new eyes. Provoost is a powerful storyteller who creates secondary characters that are just as vibrant and luminous as her curious and questioning adolescent narrator. Readers will ache with the foreknowledge of the story’s end, hoping that the people they have come to know and cherish will escape their seemingly inevitable fate. Weaving together timeless themes of justice, faith, love and hope, In the Shadow of the Ark is at once classic and immediate, completely familiar, and yet radically indefinable. Masterpiece is not too strong a word to describe this all-encompassing story. Pair it with Elsie Aidinoff’s The GardenThe Garden or The Red Tent by Anita Diamant for a provocative mother-daughter book discussion.--Jennifer Hubert
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Hardcover. 368 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Atheneum, UK, 2004. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in as new condition and comes in as new dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. This book is an unread copy. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: It was the rising waters that chased Re Jana's family from their home in the marshes. They fled to the desert, following the trail of animals and people who had gone before them. And there, in the dry centre of the desert, rose the frame of a boat of unprecedented proportions. What was it doing there? And what could explain the city of industry that had grown up around it? The rumour of the flood to come is too terrible to be true, and like most, Re Jana does not believe it. How could a god - anyone's god - determine who deserves to live and who to die? *** Quantity Available: 5. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0689872690. ISBN/EAN: 9780689872693. Inventory No: 09030041. This item is in stock in our Australian warehouse. We are not dropshippers. Seller Inventory # 09030041