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Sto caricando le informazioni... Five for sorrow, ten for joy (originale 1979; edizione 1979)di Rumer Godden
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 3.5 stars The book follows Lise, as she falls in live with a pimp and begins to work for him, serves a prison sentence, and then joins a religious order. The book also weaves in the stories of two girls that Lise more-or-less mentors. There were a few instances where the sexual inferences were a little too detailed for my personal taste. I think I would have preferred for the story to be told chronologically, instead of skipping around various timelines the way it did. Overall, though, I enjoyed the book. Young Englishwoman, Elisabeth Fanshawe becomes separated from her post as driver for the American Army on Liberation Day in Paris, May 1945. In a far-fetched beginning to the plot, she is set up by a pimp in a Paris brothel, becomes his lover and eventually the madame. The story becomes more conventional from thereon, and we trace her slow awakening to the Catholic faith, once her life as a captive to the prostitution world disintegrates into a long gaol sentence. The more convincing part of the novel is the tone change we note as Lise (as she is known) embraces the unconditional acceptance of the Dominican nuns, who offer her a freedom to live fully and lovingly. Well written, absorbing narrative and shows a well researched understanding and appreciation of the world of nuns and convent life. Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy. Rumer Godden. 1976. This is the third book I have read by Godden. The Kitchen Madonna is a beautiful children’s book about icons. In House of this House of Brede is about a middle-aged woman who became a nun, and Black Narcissus concerned a group of nuns who went to Nepal and were seduced by the climate and eastern mysticism. In this book, a young British woman escaped her stifling home life by becoming an driver in WWII. She was separated from her group when Paris was liberated and came under the spell of Patrice who seduced and abused her even as she became a famous madam in his whore house. The story opens when she is being released from prison and is going directly to the Dominicaines de Bethanie, an order of nuns who visited women in prison. As she enters the convent, the story of why she was imprisoned is told in flashbacks. Between flashbacks we follow her journey the religious life. Godden draws a beautiful picture of the liturgical year of a convent and a realistic picture of life in a woman’s prison nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
From a New York Times-bestselling author: A novel of a woman's journey from prostitute to brothel madam to murderess to nun in post-World War II France. A sense of adventure and an eagerness to savor life to the fullest impel young, orphaned Elizabeth Fanshawe to escape her cold, unloving home and enlist in the British Army as a driver in 1944. Dispatched to Paris at the close of the Allies' war against the hated Nazis, she soon finds herself swept up in the intoxicating celebratory glee of the newly liberated French. But after she meets the charming, seductive Patrice Ambard, Elizabeth's life takes a sharp turn down a very dark road. Her love for the dashing, hypnotic Frenchman draws Elizabeth, now called Lise, into Patrice's world of crime and high-class prostitution, where she is broken, hardened, and then transformed into the whore-turned-notorious-madam known as La Balafrée, or the Scarred One. Still, her great fall will not be complete until circumstances drive her to commit a shocking murder--and imprisonment ultimately sets her free. A haunting tale of disgrace, degradation, and glorious redemption told in flashbacks from the convent of Belle Source, where Soeur Marie Lise of the Sisters of Bethany remembers her years of sin and her eventual salvation, Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy is moving and powerful fiction from one of the most admired British novelists of the twentieth century. Rumer Godden, author of Black Narcissus and In This House of Brede, has crafted a truly transformative tale about faith, forgiveness, and the mercy of a loving God. This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It was excellent and not what I expected at all; yes, it was a 'religious' book, about a woman who became a nun and all that that entailed (which was very interesting), but there was also the backstory about this woman's life before becoming a nun. I'm so glad I finally read it. And honestly, I felt uplifted after reading it. ( )