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Zusatztext Booklist [Written with] richness of detail and depth of feeling....Lyrical writing and layered characterizations.... Informationen zum Autor Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for Stones in Water in 1997. Her novel Zel was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and a School Library Journal Best Book, and a number of her novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. Visit her at DonnaJoNapoli.com. Klappentext Part history, part love story, part epic, this riveting novel explores the childhood and young womanhood of Mary Magdalene, friend of Jesus. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an "American Bookseller" Pick of the Lists, a Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, and a new York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. Zusammenfassung The story of a teenage Mary Magdalene -- here called Miriam -- is finally told.... When the world goes dark and her mind explodes within her! Miriam's future is shattered. In ancient Israel such seizures make her unclean. If anyone finds out about them! she will be an outcast. Only Abraham -- the son of Hannah! her caretaker -- shares her secret. Abraham! too! is afflicted -- a perfect mind in an imperfect body -- and to the villagers he is an idiot. To Miriam he is a savior....
