Status
Available
Publication
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
Description
Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were securing their grip on the tribes and cities of Greece. The plain, unloved daughter of a local grandee, she is rescued from the contempt and neglect of her family by her Delphic role.
Media reviews
We have lost the idea of the holy, or retain only the idea that it happens, i[f] at all, somewhere else. So for some or all of these perfectly understandable reasons we are uneasy when this bold writer declares himself.
User reviews
LibraryThing member LittleKnife
This novel, still in draft-form when its Nobel laureate author died, is set at the ancient Oracle in Delphi in its twilight years. It follows the life of Arieka, chosen of Apollo, from early childhood, as she takes up her position through to old age and traces her attempts to understand the world
A dark cynical look at faith and its relationship with power and politics mixed with a subtle love story and told in a curiously innocent tone. This is a complex book with a lot to offer.
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she lives in.A dark cynical look at faith and its relationship with power and politics mixed with a subtle love story and told in a curiously innocent tone. This is a complex book with a lot to offer.
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LibraryThing member avhacker
this book was ok i was confused at what was going on most of the time. The idea was great but it jut fell through.