Format:
Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording
Author:
Kidd, Sue Monk, author, narrator.
Title:
The book of longings : a novel / Sue Monk Kidd.
Edition:
Unabridged.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : Penguin Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, [2020]
2020
Description:
11 audio discs (13 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
digital
optical
audio file
CD audio
Summary:
"In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in her furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. Their marriage evolves with love and conflict, humor and pathos in Nazareth, where Ana makes a home with Jesus, his brothers, and their mother, Mary. Ana's pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to Rome's occupation of Israel, partially led by her brother, Judas. She is sustained by her fearless aunt Yaltha, who harbors a compelling secret. When Ana commits a brazen act that puts her in peril, she flees to Alexandria, where startling revelations and greater dangers unfold, and she finds refuge in unexpected surroundings. Ana determines her fate during a stunning convergence of events considered among the most impactful in human history"--Web page.
Subjects:
Jesus Christ -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Genre:
Audiobooks.
Historical fiction.
Other Author:
Marno, Mozhan, 1980- narrator.
Notes:
Title from container.
Compact discs.
Read by Mozhan Marno ; with an author's note read by the author.
"In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in her furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. Their marriage evolves with love and conflict, humor and pathos in Nazareth, where Ana makes a home with Jesus, his brothers, and their mother, Mary. Ana's pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to Rome's occupation of Israel, partially led by her brother, Judas. She is sustained by her fearless aunt Yaltha, who harbors a compelling secret. When Ana commits a brazen act that puts her in peril, she flees to Alexandria, where startling revelations and greater dangers unfold, and she finds refuge in unexpected surroundings. Ana determines her fate during a stunning convergence of events considered among the most impactful in human history"--Web page.
ISBN:
9780593212820
Publisher or Distributor Number:
PRHA 9881
Other Number:
1143836657
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
1145157
Call Number:
CD KIDD
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
1
# System items in:
1