The Sibyl"A parable, rather than a novel in the ordinary sense of the term, The Sibyl is . . . a work of manifold meanings and unmistakable profundity, one that can neither be easily understood nor easily forgotten." —Granville Hicks, The New Leader |
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User Review - jsabrina - LibraryThingThis book tells the stories of two people touched by the divine: a man who would not let Christ rest his head against his home while he was being led to the cross, and a woman who spent many years as ... Read full review
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User Review - wunderkind - LibraryThingA 1956 novel by the 1951 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Sibyl is the story of a man cursed by God who meets and hears the story of a woman cursed (or blessed?) by god (the story is set ... Read full review
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| Title | The Sibyl |
| Author | Pär Lagerkvist |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0307807118, 9780307807113 |
| Length | 160 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Visionary & Metaphysical |
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