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Sweeter Than All the World

By Rudy Wiebe

Sweeter Than All the World Contemporary literature

Sweeter Than All the World

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At once an enthralling saga of the Mennonite people and one man’s emotional voyage into his heritage and his own self-discovery, Sweeter Than All the World takes us on an extraordinary odyssey. At the heart of the novel is Adam Wiebe, born to a homesteading prairie community. Love and success come easily to him until, faced with the collapse of his marriage and the disappearance of his daughter, he becomes obsessed with understanding his ancestral past. That past comes brilliantly alive as the story of the Mennonites weaves in and out of Adam’s own: we are drawn into the great events of four centuries, from the horrors of the Reformation to the Red Army’s advance into Germany at the close of World War II. Here, Wiebe has sought out real historical characters to tell an extraordinary story. Ambitious in its historical sweep, tender and humane, Sweeter Than All the World sets one man’s quest for family and love against generations of turmoil, laying bare the complexities of desire, faith and human frailty. This is a compassionate, erudite and stimulating work of fiction that shares the deep-rooted concerns of all of Wiebe’ s work: how to make history live in our imagination, and how we can best live our lives.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
448
Release Date:
2002-09-17
Publication Date:
2002-09-17
Publisher:
Knopf Canada
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0676973418
ISBN13:
9780676973419
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
377 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
40 cm
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