Sunday's Silence

by Gina B. Nahai

Book Overview

How different is Iran from Appalachia? Iranian-born writer Nahai's first two novels, Cry of the Peacock and Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, were set in her native land, to great effect and rave... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 015100627X
• ISBN13: 9780151006274
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

chigaco tribune review

"A bold, passionate tale of fanaticism and seduction. Sensitively and vividly rendered. Exotic, mythic, a tale told by a Sheherazade...parts of the tale told on different nights, each fascinating in its own right, each contributing to the story but also telling more than the story needs. Nahai lays her story of a strange folk and the enigma of charisma against a background rich in hisotry. 'Sunday's Silence' is an ambitious and entertaining novel that will please fans of Nahai's novels. It could also win her new readers."

San Diego Union-Tribune

"Astonishing...a searing romance, a spiritual quest, a compelling tale. Myth, history, faith, love and desire crash into each other and burn throughout "Sunday's Silence" but it is the interplay of all of these with fundamentalism that drives this lyrical work. Nahai's true achievement [is to] dig deep into the heart, soul, and--perhapst most difficult--the psyche of Christian fundamentalism at its most extreme. 'Sunday's Silence' is an eloquent look into the heart of belief, into hearts of darkness and hearts of light."

Denver Rocky Mountain News

"Sunday's Silence--A literary Tour de Force":"A novel of powerful magnetism. Nahai skillfully weaves the tangled separate stories of her characters into a unified literary tour de force. And she does it as effectively as Faulkner did years earlier. That's an accomplishment worth celebrating."

Los Angeles Times review

Exquisite...Because Nahai is not interested in sensationalizing such extreme religious notions, "Sunday's Silence" demands that we pay them attention and lets us understand a little better their powerful lure." Los Angeles Times Book Review

San Francisco Chronicle's Review

"Sunday's Silence' is exactly the kind of book that Americans need to be reading right now, a book in which East and West collide, not only in war but in love. Nahai writes equally well about these two lost worlds, both beautiful and cruel, both with serpents real and imagined. The novel is a testament to the fact that even at our strangest we are not so different, that at our strangest we are most alike." San Francisco Chronicle Book Review