Mandrakes from the Holy Land
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (946 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1592640575 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 197 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In 1906, Englishwoman Beatrice Campbell-Bennett, a devout Christian and frustrated lesbian, travels to the Holy Land ostensibly to paint biblical flowers, but her true goal is to "purify" herself. All rights reserved. In her quest to explore what she calls "this land of wonders," the fiercely independent Beatrice hires a young Arab guide named Aziz, with whom she develops an increasingly tense relationship. Megged annotates the letters and diary entries with notes by a Dr. P.D. (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly Israeli novelist Megged sets his historically rich epistolary and diary-based novel (after Foiglman) in turn-of-the-century Palestine, then mostly a backwater of small Arab villages and start-up Jewish farming settlements. She al
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Edward said excellent historical fiction. Beatrice Campbell-Bennett, an artist with close connections to the Bloomsbury Group, arrives in Palestine in 1906 during the fading days of the Ottoman empire. Torn between deep Christian religiosity and an intense erotic attraction to Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa, Beatrice struggles to suppress her carnal self by immersion in the inspirational landscape of the Holy Land only to discover new temptations while accompanied by an Arab guide whose true intentions are ominously clear only to the reader. At first her exceptional scriptural knowledge seems a charmingly apt prism through