[Faith-talk] Fiction by writers who express their Faith in theirfiction

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Hey John, good to hear of yet another of your interests.
I have seen in some of the NLS talking book topics, novels about jewish 
persons -- I don't think they are categorized as "jewish fiction", but I 
know they are out there.  Have you ever read the novel "The Chosen"? That 
was made into a movie which was truely an excellent flick.  I'd like to read 
the book. It's about 2 young jewish friends who wer sons of 2 rabbis with 
radically different views.  (I wondered as I watched the movie if this was 
pure fiction or just memoirs of the author's own life as one of the boys.)

As for Islam, you can find a number of books by muslim women living in the 
more repressed muslim countries -- but these are memoirs and not fiction.
For fiction, I read "The Kite Runner", which was a truely well written novel 
about 2 young boys growing up in Afghanistan.  It was not religious, 
though -- the protagonist was the son of a non-believing muslim man, and the 
only religious persons in the book were either poor or else part of the 
Taliban and therefore extremely violent and oppressive.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
Let me know if this is what you are looking for.
Happy reading.
--laura
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John J. Boyer" <john at godtouches.org>
To: <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 8:30 AM
Subject: [Faith-talk] Fiction by writers who express their Faith in 
theirfiction


I've seen a lot of Christian fiction. Now I would like to see some
genuine Jewish fiction. I'm afraid Isaac Bashevis Singer isn't really a
believer. It would also be interesting to see some fiction by genuine
believers in Islam and Buddhism. I'm making a sort of study of religious
fiction.

Thanks and prayers,
John

-- 
John J. Boyer, Executive Director
GodTouches Digital Ministry, Inc.
http://www.godtouches.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Peace, Love, Service


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