The Sign of the Cross Travels in Catholic Europe (Vintage Departures) - Softcover

Toibin, Colm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679758550 ISBN 13: 9780679758556

Verlag: Vintage Books, 1996

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Book by Toibin Colm

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The author explores the role of Catholicism in the lives of people throughout Europe and reexamines its impact on his own life

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is one of Ireland's most distinguished young writers; he is also a lapsed Catholic. Yet over a succession of Holy Weeks, Toibin found himself traveling to places where Catholicism still possesses mystery and power, from Poland to Lithuania, from Lourdes to Santiago, and from Croatia to Ireland. And in seeing how the faith persisted in other people's lives, he discovered how it still resonated in his own. In this beautifully observed work of travel writing and spiritual reportage, Toibin turns his eye on Catholicism's rituals and processions, its high-minded fanatics and humble communicants. He shows how it ripples outward into the history and politics of homelands. Yet Toibin also encounters the cross-shaped wound that lies at his own center--and it is his unflinching examination of that wound that makes The Sign of the Cross as moving as it is perceptive and urbane.
"A writer of considerable poetic gifts. Toibin's descriptions are enlivening."--Los An

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• Verlag: Vintage Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679758550
• ISBN 13: 9780679758556
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Herausgeber: McDonald Erroll