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A Stolen Tongue Book

The narrator of Sheri Holman's debut novel, A Stolen Tongue is Father Felix Fabri, a 15th-century monk on a pilgrimage to Alexandria, Egypt, to visit his "wife," Saint Katherine. The fact that Katherine is long dead, her various body parts distributed among reliquaries from Greece to Palestine, does not dilute Felix's passion for his spiritual mate. Indeed, from the day he first offered himself to her as a boy, it has been his life's ambition to travel to the Sinai, where she was martyred, visiting each relic along the way. But every time Felix arrives at one of these holy places, he finds a piece of Katherine gone. First her hand, then her ear, then her tongue--all stolen. This historical mystery has many charms, not least among them Father Felix himself. Ms. Holman has done both the actual historic figure and her novel a great service by occasionally allowing this unique individual to speak in his own words (translated from the Latin by the late Aubrey Stewart) on such subjects as "Why the Eucharist May Not Be Celebrated on Shipboard" or "The Rules for Pilgrimage." It is a testament to the author's skill that the seams stitching together the fictional Felix and the historic one are well-nigh invisible.Read More

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    A captivating novel that recalls the work of Umberto Eco and Barry Unsworth. In 1483, Father Felix Fabri sets sail from Germany to Mount Sinai on a pilgrimage to venerate the relics of the spiritual bride he took when he first swore his vows, the martyr Saint Katherine of Alexandria. But Father Fabri finds himself thrust into a deep and strange mystery when he discovers that, little by little, the remains of Katherine's body are being plundered Author promo .

  • 0385491247
  • 9780385491242
  • Sheri Holman
  • 31 December 1998
  • Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 343
  • 1st Anchor Books Ed
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