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Little Brown & Company
March 2013
On Sale: March 11, 2013
311 pages
ISBN: 0316232785
EAN: 9780316232784
Kindle: B008TURI4Y
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Historical
An award-winning writer re-imagines the life of Jesus,
from the points of view of four people closest to him before
his death. This is the story of Yehoshuah, who wandered Roman-occupied
Judea giving sermons and healing the sick. Now, a year after
his death, four people tell their stories. His mother
grieves, his friend Iehuda loses his faith, the High Priest
of the Temple tries to keep the peace, and a rebel named
Bar-Avo strives to bring that peace tumbling down. It was a time of political power-play and brutal tyranny.
Men and women took to the streets to protest. Dictators put
them down with iron force. In the midst of it all, one
inconsequential preacher died. And either something
miraculous happened, or someone lied. Viscerally powerful in its depictions of the period -
massacres and riots, animal sacrifice and human betrayal -
The Liars' Gospel makes the oldest story entirely new.
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