The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris

Author:Kathleen Norris
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781573225847
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2011-07-12T06:57:35+00:00

One wonders: will the “usual spring” appear on the site where she died? Will this strange story of a powerless young girl who has the power to make soldiers afraid be embellished over the years, as the soldiers try to live with the horror of what they have done? This nameless girl has made her witness: it began when the soldiers’ wonder began to turn to fear, and continued as they argued afterwards about her death. She had brought them to the point vierge, where conversion begins in the human heart.

“Some declared that the girl’s strange power proved that God existed,” Danner writes. “And that brought them back to the killing of the children. There were a lot of differences among the soldiers about whether this had been a good thing or whether they shouldn’t have done it.” Sometimes it takes a death to make us see the obvious. Sometimes it is a fierce little girl who is hard to kill, who gives witness to a mystery beyond our understanding and control. And in the wild center of that young girl’s heart, we glimpse love stronger than death, a love that shames us all.

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