A Different Sun: A Novel of Africa

Author: Orr, Elaine Neil

Color: Multicolor

Edition: 1

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 400

Details:

Elaine Neil Orr is professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh where she teaches world literature and creative writing. She also serves on the faculty of the brief-residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University in Louisville. Author of two scholarly books and the memoir, Gods of Noonday: A White Girl’s African Life, she has been a featured speaker and writer-in-residence at numerous universities and conferences and is a frequent fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She grew up in Nigeria. From Library Journal “Lush, evocative, breathtaking in its descriptions, and deeply spiritual in its themes of love, forgiveness, and transformation, this extraordinary novel shines with light and depth. Reminiscent of Barbara Kingsolver’s magnum opus, The Poisonwood Bible, with elements of Joseph Conrad and Louise Erdrich, Orr’s stunning debut is starkly beautiful and true to life.” ( STARRED REVIEW)

Reviews:

“As lyrical and passionate a novel as has ever been written, A Different Sun shines in the mind like a rare gem… A memorable and altogether original story.”—Lee Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Fair and Tender Ladies and The Last Girls

“A magnificent novel that explores the charged juncture between nineteenth-century Africa and the slaveholding South. This is the spellbinding, richly imagined story of missionaries Emma and Henry Bowman—inspired by historical figures—and the remarkable people they encounter on their transformative journey. Although A Different Sun might be seen as an Out of Africa for the twenty-first century, Orr’s is an original and important new voice in American fiction.”—Angela Davis-Gardner, author of Plum Wine and Butterfly’s Child

“For anyone who has been waiting for a writer to imagine the white traveler to Africa from an altogether different angle, here is Elaine Neil Orr’s brilliant novel. It goes to the heart. It goes to the bone. You won't be able to put it down.”—Peggy Payne, author of Sister India and Revelation

“An important book, one which unflinchingly explores tensions between Christianity and African religions, slavery and freedom, madness and love.”—Wayne Caldwell, author of Cataloochee and Requiem by Fire

“A powerful exploration of ‘correctness of principle’…a sharp statement about morality… an exploration of love and true goodness…A beautiful novel, exquisitely written, perfectly complex, true to the past, relevant today, unforgettable.”—Philip F. Deaver, author of Silent Retreats, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

“Extraordinary… grips the imagination and doesn’t let go. Here is rendered as fierce a spirituality as anything you can read in Dostoevsky. This is a book of high adventure with life and death stakes both for the body and the soul. It has a penetrating authenticity that will make your hair stand on end.”—Sena Jeter Naslund, New York Times bestselling author of Ahab’s Wife and Four Spirits  From the Author If you are like me, you sometimes wonder if what a person DOESN'T TELL is more important than what she does tell.  I was inspired to write this book when my mother gave me a copy of a diary kept by a white woman who spent three years in West Africa, from 1853-1856.  The diary was so sparse that even when tragedy struck, the writer recorded only two to three sentences, just enough for me to know her heart was broken.  But she didn't show that.  She showed herself plowing ahead with her

"mission."   The more research I did and the more I uncovered, the less satisfied I was sticking with the facts. And so my book became a novel.  Somewhere along the way, I decided that my heroine would need a writing box to hold her diary.  So I made one (or rather, I had her husband make one for her) and I wrote it into the novel.  About a year later, I traveled to the hometown of the historical woman who kept the diary.  I found the town historian who happened to be the town fl...

EAN: 9780425261309

Release Date: 02-04-2013

Languages: english

Item Note: Great shape- pages are unmarked and sharp.Has a remainder mark. Paperback Used - Like New Ships fast! 20131st Edition

Item Condition: UsedLikeNew

Binding: Paperback