Savior
Paperback
Series: Across the World on the Wings of the Wind, Book 1
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ISBN10: 1535173769
ISBN13: 9781535173766
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 7 2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781535173766
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 7 2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Second Edition. ***There's nothing new about holy war. The language of the Crusades is echoed in the news of today. You can hear it in Savior, a work of historical fiction that looks both at holy war and depression through the mirror of the 13th century. ***Imagine living in a world where depression is not regarded as a disease, but as Satan trying to steal your soul. Imagine turning to your priest who counsels you to take the Cross and to travel thousands of miles to the Holy Land to kill people so that you can be free of Satan forever. Imagine you believe this so absolutely that none of the rational arguments offered by your parents, your friends or your beloved can persuade you otherwise. Imagine that this journey costs you everything but the one thing you had hoped to lose - your life. What, from that desperate emptiness, would you find to bring back? Savior is this story.Savior is a coming-of-age novel, set in thirteenth century Switzerland, Palestine and Lebanon. Savior exemplifies the universal human journey of delusion, suffering, discovery, liberation, and transcendence that creates the individual.Savior is the first novel in the series Across the World on the Wings of the Wind, a trilogy of stand-alone novels, a family saga, spanning 500 years of the von Lunkhofen/Schneebeli family from Affoltern am Albis, Switzerland. The trilogy begins with Savior, relating Rudolf von Lunkhofen's journey on Crusade to the Holy Land in 1244 and ends with The Price that brings the Schneebeli family to America in 1743. In between is The Brothers Path in which the Schneebeli family finds itself caught up in the upheaval of the Protestant Reformation.
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