The Testament of Mary
by Colm Tóibín · 2012
Literary Fiction · ranked #202 in category
Mary, the mother of Jesus, is old and living in Ephesus, watched over by two men who are compiling her son's story. Her testimony is bitter, frightened and devastatingly human — the account of a mother who was there and who remembers it differently from the story that is being written. Tóibín's novella is one of the most formally bold works of contemporary literary fiction.
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