TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiebe,Rudy
TI  - Sweeter than All the World
SN  - 0676973418 (pbk)
U1  - C813/.54 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - Vintage Canada
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; CONTENTS; 1. Speaking Waskahikan; 2. Sailing to Danzig; 3. Flour and Yeast; 4. On Lastfire Lake; 5. Tongue Screw; 6. Manhattan; 7. Believing Is Seeing; 8. Left-handed Woman; 9. Table Setting; 10. Crossing the Volga; 11. Sleeping with Franz Kafka; 12. The Holy Community of the Bride; 13. Except God Who Already Knows; 14. A Plan for Jews and Mennonites; 15. The Shells of the Ocean; 16. A Tour of Siberia; 17. In the Ear of the Beholder; 18. My Brother Vanya; 19. Birch and Lilac; 20. The Hills of Number Eight Romanovka; 21. Bones of the Atacama Desert; 22. Homestead; 23. A Ladder of Angels
N2  - "Sweeter than all the world is an enthralling saga of the Mennonite people and one man's emotional voyage into his own heritage. At the heart of the novel is Adam Wiebe, born to a homesteading prairie community. Love and success come easily to him until, faced with the collapse of his marriage and the disappearance of his daughter, he becomes obsessed with understanding his ancestral past."; That past comes brilliantly alive as the story of the Mennonites weaves in and out of Adam's own: we are drawn into the great events of four centuries, from the horrors of the Reformation to the Red Army's advance into Germany at the close of World War II. Ambitious in its historical sweep, tender and humane, Sweeter than all the World sets one man's quest for family and love against generations of turmoil, laying bare the complexities of desire, faith and human frailty." (Book Cover)
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