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Bezig met laden... Ceciliadoor Linda Ferri
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Ok fictionalized story of St Cecilia. A third of the novel is her as an educated child, daughter of a wealthy Roman physician who also hold political office, one third is her a married matron, bored and unhappy, the final third is after her conversion to Christianity. It's an interesting story but I never found it compelling. Also, the translation was lumpy. ( )
Ferri ably ventriloquizes the simultaneously irritating and appealing voice of adolescent Cecilia, inclined “to prefer spiritual fervor at the expense of discipline.” But when, after a corrosive union with a volatile husband, this “seed of obstinacy” leads her to Christianity and inevitable martyrdom, the plucky voice gets lost in religious platitudes.
Tells the story of a young girl's search to define herself in a world rife with social upheaval, religious conflict and deep foreboding. Cecilia, born into a noble Roman family in the second century AD, is 15 years old. But in a society that leaves little room for women to discover aptitudes, her search for knowledge, which she conducts with all the awkwardness and urgency of her age, is fraught with challenges. Grasping for light in an age of darkness and searching for answers among conflicting ideologies, Cecilia tells the story of a soul's progress. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)853.92Literature Italian and related languages Italian fiction 1900- 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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