Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible

<p>Provides a thought-provoking account of the authors' spiritual odyssey across America, drawing on the work of some today's most influential writers--A. L. Kennedy, Rick Moody, Francine Prose, Peter Trachtenberg, and Haven Kimmell--to rework the Bible to make it relevant to modern-day faith. 30,000 first printing.</p>

Religion & Spirituality

Peter Manseau

Jeff Sharlet

Buddhism

Free Press

<p>A fascinating, intelligent, and sometimes funny tour of the human relics at the root of the world's major religions By examining relics-the bits and pieces of long-dead saints at the heart of nearly all religious traditions-Peter Manseau delivers a book about life, and about faith and how it is sustained. The result of wide travel and the author's own deep curiosity, filled with true tales of the living and dubious legends of the dead, Rag and Bone tells of a California seeker who ended up in a Jerusalem convent because of a nun's disembodied hand; a French forensics expert who travels on the metro with the rib of a saint; two young brothers who collect tickets at a Syrian mosque, studying English beside a hair from the Prophet Muhammad's beard; and many other stories, myths, and peculiar histories. With these, and an array of other digits, limbs, and bones, Manseau provides a respectful, witty, informed, inquisitive, thoughtful, and fascinating look into the "primordial strangeness that is at the heart of belief," and the place where the abstractions of faith meet the realities of physical objects, of rags and bones.</p>

Rag and Bone

Religious Studies

Henry Holt and Co.

An immigrant's epic saga, an unlikely friendship, and a love story that spans the entire 20th century. One summer, a young graduate takes a job in a Yiddish book warehouse and finds himself falling in love with both a woman and a language.

Songs for the Butcher's Daughter

Simon Schuster(uk)

Bibliothek der unerfüllten Träume

Hoffmann u Campe Vlg GmbH

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