Naamah
A Novel
ISBN-13: 9780525536338
Contributor(s): Sarah Blake
Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)
Publisher Imprint: Riverhead
Publication Date: 11-04-2019
Format: Hardback
Availability: Out of stock
£20.99
About the book
Meet Naamah, Noah's wife, the matriarch who kept her family alive as they drifted on an endless sea. Here is a woman torn between faith and fury, lending her strength to her sons and their wives, caring for an unruly menagerie of restless creatures, silently mourning the lover she left behind. In fresh and modern language, Blake revisits the story of the Ark that rescued life on earth, and rediscovers the agonising burdens endured by the woman at the heart of the story. Naamah is a parable for our time: a provocative fable of body, spirit, and resilience.