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Obedience
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerRomanceLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780143120674
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jan 31 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
A once -bustling convent in the South of France is closing, leaving behind three elderly nuns. Forced, for the first time, to confront the community that she betrayed decades ago, Sister Bernard relives her life during the war.
At thirty, Sister Bernard can hear the voice of God-strident, furious, and personal. When a young Nazi soldier, a member of the German occupying forces, asks her to meet him in the church in secret one evening, she agrees. And so begins the horrifying and passionate love affair that will deafen the heavens and define her life, tempting her into duplicity. Obedience is a powerful exploration of one woman's struggle to reconcile her aching need to be loved with her fear of God's wrath.
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