Name: Lourdes
SKU: 68922662
Price: 22.81 EUR
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Author: Zola, Émile
ISBN: 9798190155754

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Lourdes

Zola, Émile (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

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Synopsis "Lourdes"

A dying girl. A doubting priest. A town built on miracles. Marie de Guersaint has spent seven years paralyzed in bed, her body wasting while her spirit still burns with hope. When she boards the white pilgrim train to Lourdes, crammed among hundreds of the sick and dying, her oldest friend Pierre Froment accompanies her — a priest who has lost his faith and tells no one, performing his rites like a man attending his own funeral. Over five days, Zola plunges us into the Grotto's blaze of candles and prayer, into the wards of the dying and the miracle-hungry crowds who fill them, into a Lourdes of profiteering shopkeepers and true believers standing side by side. Amid it all, Pierre must reckon with a question that will not let him go: what if the greatest mercy isn't truth, but the courage to let another person believe? Originally published in 1894 as the first novel of Zola's Three Cities trilogy, Lourdes is a masterwork of naturalism — clear-eyed, compassionate, and unflinching — that asks whether science and faith can ever truly forgive each other. This new English translation renders Zola's sweeping human drama for contemporary readers, preserving the novel's period detail and emotional power in prose that reads as if written today.