**A gripping, bighearted book. Khaled Hosseini** \*\*Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award \*\* **One of the *New York Times Book Review's* 100 Notable Books of 2013 and named by *The Christian Science Monitor* as one of the top 15 works of fiction** The
All the World Beside : A Novel
β Scribed by Garrard Conley
- Book ID
- 113097984
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 543 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780525537335
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β¦ Synopsis
From the New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased , an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England.
Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister's words a love so captivating it transcends language.
As the bond between these two men grows more and more passionate, their families must contend with a tangled web of secrets, lies, and judgments which threaten to destroy them in this world and the next. And when the religious ecstasies of the Great Awakening begin to take hold, igniting a new era of zealotry, Nathaniel and Arthur search for a path out of an impossible situation, imagining a future for themselves which...
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