In The Shadow Of The Ark
Re Jana and her parents have heard stories about a man building an enormous ship in the desert, and decide to leave their home to go there and find work. Re Jana, an attractive girl on the verge of adulthood, teaches the people the benefits of pure clean water and fragrant oils. Ham, Noah's...
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Re Jana and her parents have heard stories about a man building an enormous ship in the desert, and decide to leave their home to go there and find work. Re Jana, an attractive girl on the verge of adulthood, teaches the people the benefits of pure clean water and fragrant oils. Ham, Noah's youngest son, succumbs to her charms, confiding in Re Jana that his god intends to submerge the world and that only Noah and his family will be saved. When the Flood finally arrives, Re Jana is smuggled on-board by Ham. When at last the ship runs aground, a pregnant Re Jana realises she will be instrumental in founding a new dynasty in a new world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780689872709 (0689872704)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Edition language: English
Following on the commerical success of Anita Diamant's 'The Red Tent,' publishers have struck on Belgian author Anne Provoost's retelling of the story of Noah's Ark as their next great hope...However, although it does tell a Biblical story from the perspective of a young woman, in many ways the two ...