With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows

by Sandra Kalniete

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God is said to have given humans freedom. Yet in the story of Genesis God is a punishing father-figure. Why have humans portrayed him like this? Here, a contemporary writer called Adam imagines God behaving as a good father should, seeing it is time for his children to leave home. Adam writes an account of this, and the story of his own child Sophie and his relationship with her. The scene moves from London to New York to Israel to Iran to Iraq. And might not God as well as Adam have a wife to take up the cause if things go wrong?… (more)

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Ce livre réponds/pose de multiples questions. L'une d'elle pourrait être "pourquoi l'Union Européenne"? Et bien il en est une magnifique réponse. Mais bien sur, toute la richesse humaine abritée et broyée par la mécanique concentrationnaire. (

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Con zapatos de fiesta... en las nieves de Siberia

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God is said to have given humans freedom. Yet in the story of Genesis God is a punishing father-figure. Why have humans portrayed him like this? Here, a contemporary writer called Adam imagines God behaving as a good father should, seeing it is time for his children to leave home. Adam writes an account of this, and the story of his own child Sophie and his relationship with her. The scene moves from London to New York to Israel to Iran to Iraq. And might not God as well as Adam have a wife to take up the cause if things go wrong?

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