As these men attempt to elucidate the last days of Christ’s life through interrogation, Mary recounts her side of the world’s most famous narrative. Here she lives quietly and contemplatively, but under the supervision of her two intrusive keepers: men who constantly ask her to recount her son’s final years for the purpose of inscribing them in Gospel form. This powerful novel finds Mary in the ancient Greek town of Ephesus in the years following her son’s death. Prolific Irish writer Colm Tóibín chooses to bypass that divinity and explore the pure humanity of Mary in his own artistic expression, THE TESTAMENT OF MARY. And while all of these reflections uniquely capture Mary’s form, each seems to display the divine side of Mary: The Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. She serves as a fixture in the world of art-depicted in countless paintings and sculptures across historical art periods. She appears, of course, in the formal religious sphere, where she is fervently worshiped and praised. Tóibín's tour de force of imagination and language is a portrait so vivid and convincing that our image of Mary will be forever transformed.The figure of Mary, mother of Jesus, remains a powerful, resonating influence in today’s culture. This woman whom we know from centuries of paintings and scripture as the docile, loving, silent, long-suffering, obedient, worshipful mother of Christ becomes a tragic heroine with the relentless eloquence of Electra or Medea or Antigone. Mary judges herself ruthlessly (she did not stay at the foot of the cross until her son died-she fled, to save herself), and her judgment of others is equally harsh.
She does not agree that her son is the Son of God nor that his death was "worth it" nor that the "group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye," were holy disciples. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel, who are her keepers. In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. "Tóibín is at his lyrical best in this beautiful and daring work" ( The New York Times Book Review) that portrays Mary as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity-shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.
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