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The Book of Mercy

door Kathleen Cambor

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The Book of Mercy is the story of Edmund Mueller, a retired fireman tormented by memories of his flamboyant wife, Fanny, and her disappearance from his life years ago. Suffering from isolation, Edmund become fascinated with the art of alchemy, with the works of Paracelsus and Hermes Trismegistus, and the search for the Elixir of Life, which will enable him, he believes, to transmute base metals into gold. The cause of his obsession is a harrowing mystery plumbed by his daughter, Anne, and the resident tending him during his institutionalization. Interwoven with Edmund’s tale of that of his daughter. Abandoned by her mother while still a baby, Anne learns to take shreds of love where she find them, from her burdened brother and distant father, then from the string of lovers she pursues. She counts on her wits and willfulness to lead her through her unexamined life. It is only when she takes up psychiatry and tries to find the heart to deal with her troubled patients that she begins to know herself and comes to understand that her life, like her father’s, has been a search for magic—a quest for the transforming power of love.… (meer)
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In chapters alternating between the story of Edmund, a retired fire fighter, and Anne, his daughter, The Book of Mercy by Kathleen Cambor tells the story of estrangement, as Edmund, the bravest fire fighter in his day tries to capture his lost love, mother of his children, Paul and Annie, Fanny, who has run off. Fanny's passion is dance, and she proves to be harder to capture than flames, Edmund's other passion. His love for flames and Fanny deepens into an interest in alchemy, and as Edmund cannot catch or keep hold of Fanny, he believes only the flames can. The lack of passion and caring in the family, leads to Paul and Anne to develop very different careers. Anne studies medicine, after which she spends a life long at home, caring for her father. Paul, whose life is hidden throughout the novel, only to resurface at the end has been educated at a seminary to become a priest, bestows his love on the needy in Africa, where, as a gay man he becomes infected with AIDS, which brings him home, to die.

The Book of Mercy is a book of passion, which consumes each of the main protagonists in its own way. ( )
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The Book of Mercy is the story of Edmund Mueller, a retired fireman tormented by memories of his flamboyant wife, Fanny, and her disappearance from his life years ago. Suffering from isolation, Edmund become fascinated with the art of alchemy, with the works of Paracelsus and Hermes Trismegistus, and the search for the Elixir of Life, which will enable him, he believes, to transmute base metals into gold. The cause of his obsession is a harrowing mystery plumbed by his daughter, Anne, and the resident tending him during his institutionalization. Interwoven with Edmund’s tale of that of his daughter. Abandoned by her mother while still a baby, Anne learns to take shreds of love where she find them, from her burdened brother and distant father, then from the string of lovers she pursues. She counts on her wits and willfulness to lead her through her unexamined life. It is only when she takes up psychiatry and tries to find the heart to deal with her troubled patients that she begins to know herself and comes to understand that her life, like her father’s, has been a search for magic—a quest for the transforming power of love.

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