Východ slunce - Kniha Josefova – Roth Patrick (2018)

Patrick Roth tells the incredible story of Joseph from Nazareth as a desperate man, depicting his deep faith and disobedience to God. The novel also explores the possibility of a new beginning. Jerusalem in 70 AD: Roman troops threaten to tear down the protective walls. The siege of the Holy City serves as the starting point for a novel full of powerful imagery, whose narrative arc stretches to the moment of Jesus' birth. At the center of the events stands Joseph, Mary's husband, about whom the gospels tell that he listened to dreams when he took in a woman and a child. Patrick Roth assigns him a fate full of tension, a drama between man and divinity as an elusive power. Thirteen years after Jesus' birth, God demands the highest sacrifice from Joseph. "Where is the justice for me to understand?" Joseph laments in the face of God's unjust will. Can he make this sacrifice? In intricately intertwined passages between dream and reality, the novel penetrates the realm of experiences where apparent certainties crumble. Roth's narrative artistry stems from existential experience and testifies to the exceptional strength of the author's language, which, in its approach to the expressive rhythm of the Bible, is itself an aesthetic experience. Compared to contemporary works, Roth's storytelling style is distinct...