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Love and faith amidst China's historic upheaval.
"City of Tranquil Light" offers a poignant exploration of love and dedication set against the tumultuous backdrop of early 20th-century China. As you delve into the lives of Will and Katherine, their alternating perspectives will draw you into an intimate narrative that's both a testament to their missionary journey and a reflective tale of their evolving relationship in a time of significant historical change. This book resonates deeply with its portrayal of a couple's resilience, making it a moving read for anyone fascinated by the interplay between personal faith, historical events, and the endurance of love.
- INSPY for General Fiction (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
City of Tranquil Light
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Bo Caldwell
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ISBN: 9780312641801
Authors:
Bo Caldwell
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date of Publication: 2011-10-25
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.26
(rated by 1962 readers)
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"What ardent, dazzling souls emerge from these American missionaries in China . . . A beautiful, searing book that leaves an indelible presence in the mind." ―Patricia Hampl, author of The Florist's Daughter Will Kiehn is seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest when, having felt a call from God, he travels to the vast North China Plain in the early twentieth-century. There he is surprised by love and weds a strong and determined fellow missionary, Katherine. They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two-thousand-year-old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war. As the couple works to improve the lives of the people of Kuang P'ing Ch'eng― City of Tranquil Light, a place they come to love―and face incredible hardship, will their faith and relationship be enough to sustain them? Told through Will and Katherine's alternating viewpoints―and inspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents― City of Tranquil Light is a tender and elegiac portrait of a young marriage set against the backdrop of the shifting face of a beautiful but torn nation. A deeply spiritual book, it shows how those who work to teach others often have the most to learn, and is further evidence that Bo Caldwell writes "vividly and with great historical perspective" ( San Jose Mercury News ).
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Love and faith amidst China's historic upheaval.
"City of Tranquil Light" offers a poignant exploration of love and dedication set against the tumultuous backdrop of early 20th-century China. As you delve into the lives of Will and Katherine, their alternating perspectives will draw you into an intimate narrative that's both a testament to their missionary journey and a reflective tale of their evolving relationship in a time of significant historical change. This book resonates deeply with its portrayal of a couple's resilience, making it a moving read for anyone fascinated by the interplay between personal faith, historical events, and the endurance of love.
- INSPY for General Fiction (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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