num_pages: 330
description: Carla, Margarita, and Iphigenia are three nuns living in crumbling monastery on a remote island, forgotten by time, the world, and the Church. Their liturgical calendar is governed by the changing of the seasons, and by the rising and setting of the sun. Their days are spent performing a ritual of prayer and storytelling, as they knit the wool of the sheep that inhabit the monastery grounds and into whose bodies they believe their deceased sisters' souls to have entered.Then one day, seemingly out of nowhere, a priest appears. Hoping to rise in the Church hierachy, he has presented plans to his bishop to convert what he believes is an uninhabited and valuable piece of Church property into a resort for the wealthy-and he has come to survey the land. Father Ignatius is as surprised to see the nuns as they are to see a flesh-and-blood man, and what follows is the strange, moving, and often hilarious story of their struggle-a struggle of wills, but also of faith.Lambs of God is a beautifully written, haunting story of colliding traditions, conflicting beliefs, and magical transformations. It weaves together Christian belief, classical mythology, fairy tales, Celtic lore, and the mysteries of the natural world into one of the most memorable and gripping of contemporary novels. Already a number-one bestseller in Australia, Lambs of God is a wildly original investigation into the nature and complexities of faith.
language: English
title: Lambs of God
titlecomplete: Lambs of God
genres: Australia, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Contemporary, Drama, Novels, Fiction, Religion, Adult
ratings_count: 780
publisher: Riverhead Books