Showing results for "lamentation" in Literary Fiction

A Richard and Judy Book Club Selection
What should you do if the world has turned against you? When Father Anselm is asked this question by an old man at Larkwood Priory, his response is to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined. For that evening the old man returns, demanding the protection of the church. His name is Eduard Schwermann and he is wanted by the police as a suspected war criminal.

A man arrives at Larkwood Monastery claiming sanctuary. Edward Schwermann is accused of Nazi war crimes: the chances are he's stained with blood, but politics demand that Larkwood shelter him. And Schwermann has intimated that the Church offered him sanctuary once before, during the war. It is this potentially embarrassing claim which brings Father Anselm onto centre stage.

"سيدة المقام" ليست مجرّد رواية بل هي أنشودة طويلة وحزينة للحياة والحب والحرية والجمال، مثل بطلتها راقصة الأوبرا الجزائرية "مريم" التى ترقص مذبوحة من الألم فى زمن توارت فيه كل ملامح الجمال ومظاهره من عالمنا العربى بفعل فاعل، وأخلت السبيل لقبح القادمين الجدد الذين شنقوا الشجر والزهور وأحرقوا اللوحات والمراسم والمسارح والحقول وزرقة السماء والبحر ولونوا كل شيء بلون الدم والفجيعة والموت المجاني والتصحر الفكري والثقافي.