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  • From: "Liz Halperin" <lizzers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 20:05:56 -0700

Someone is in for a wonderful first experience, or a rewarding re-read:
"The Nun's Story" by Kathryn Hulme, 1956. Wonderfully clean scan--I
spent hours on this one. Long synopsis: 

A doctor's daughter in Belgium joins a convent in the late 1920s. This
story follows her spiritual journey as well as her decade in the Belgian
Congo, then back to Europe for the start of WW2. Germans occupy Belgium
and Sister Luke is further tormented by spiritual doubts.  This book is
beautifully written and became a classic. It was made into a movie with
Audrey Hepburn.  There is a lot of vocabulary in Latin, Flemish, French,
and some Kiswhahili. It is a deeply rewarding experience to read this
book, regardless of one's spiritual or religious grounding.

Liz Halperin
Seattle, WA
lizzers@xxxxxxxxxxx



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