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The Divine Economy of Salvation
by
Uppal, Priscila
Plot/Summary:
Sister Angela, a nun in Ottawa, Canada, has lived for
twenty years with a horrible secret kept since her days as
a teenager at the S. X School for Girls. One day, out of
the blue, she is delivered a package that wrenches her
secret out of the shady depths of the past and makes her
think that someone is out to expose her
and a crime she has spent a lifetime trying to forget.
Comments:
Travelling back and forth between Angela's coming-of-age
and her experience of adult guilt, this novel explores
many complex issues and ideas such as the nature of
faith.
However, Uppal dwells most intimately on the human
experience of sin, fear, and forgiveness through the
tender
narrative of Sister Angela.
This is a daring debut by a first-time author who writes
convincingly of the closed world of the cloister. The
language is carefully crafted and the suspenseful plot
keeps the reader guessing till the very end. The
Divine
Economy of Salvation should appeal to both fans of
mystery as well as literary fiction.
Reviewed by aw, 11/02.
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More information on The Divine Economy of Salvation:
Setting: Ottawa, Canada
Time: 20th Century
Bibliographic Information: Published 2002, 403 pages
Call number: FICTION UPPAL, PRISCILA
Genre/Subject:
General Fiction
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