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001 ocm59760926
003 OCoLC
005 20100406122129.0
008 050428s2004 nyub 000 f eng
010 $z 2003019648
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050 4 $aPQ2668.A434$bS2713 2004
082 04 $a843.914
100 1 $aHalter, Marek.
240 10 $aSarah.$lEnglish
245 10 $aSarah :$ba novel /$cMarek Halter.
250 $a1st American pbk. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bThree Rivers Press,$cc2004.
300 $a325 p. :$bmap ;$c21 cm.
490 1 $aBook one of the Canaan trilogy
500 $aIncludes a reader's group guide to "Sarah" (p. [297]-310) and an excerpt of Zipporah, wife of Moses, (p. [311]-325.
500 $a"Originally published in France by Robert Laffont, Paris, in 2003"--T.p. verso.
520 $aSarah's story begins in the cradle of civilization: the Sumerian city-state of Ur, a land of desert heat, towering gardens, and immense wealth. The daughter of a powerful lord, Sarah balks at the marriage her father has planned for her. On her wedding day, she impulsively flees to the vast, empty marshes outside the city walls, where she meets a young man named Abram, son of a tribe of outsiders. Drawn to this exotic stranger, Sarah spends one night with him and reluctantly returns to her father's house. But on her return, she secretly drinks a poisonous potion that will make her barren and thus unfit for marriage. Many years later, Abram returns to Ur and discovers that the lost, rebellious girl from the marsh has been transformed into a splendid woman, the high priestess of the goddess Ishtar. But Sarah gives up her exalted life to join Abram's tribe and follow the one true God, an invisible deity who speaks only to Abram. It is then that her journey truly begins. From the great ziggurat of Ishtar to the fertile valleys of Canaan to the bedchamber of the mighty Pharaoh himself, Sarah's story reveals an ancient world full of beauty, intrigue, and miracles.
600 00 $aSarah$c(Biblical matriarch)$vFiction.
800 1 $aHalter, Marek.$tBible au féminin.$lEnglish ;$vbk. 1.
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948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN PMR - 212 OTHER HOLDINGS