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This is a format I like - 4 stand alone stories all touching on the life of Jesus, his mother, a friend, the Cheif Priest and Barabas. All were excellently written and imminently quotable but I am not quite sure what the author was trying to say. Part of the message is the power of story and the line between truth and fiction but at times it felt like the aim was to simply be provocative. An interesting read

Stories of Yehoshuah/Jesus from Miryam/Mary, Iehouda/Judas, Caiaphas, and Bar-Avo/Barrabas.

The stories are firmly rooted in the Jewish context of a land occupied by the Romans but show a figure different but recognisably extrapolated from the stories in the New Testament. Fascinating.

Primarily known for her most recent book The Power, I have heard that Alderman's older works such as Disobedience & The Liar's Gospel are far better. A year after the death of #Marysboychild four people tell their stories, providing a portrait of the contradictory figure known as Yehoshuah & their tumultuous times.
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I've always had a strange fascination for "retellings" of the story of Jesus and this one is no exception. In Alderman's tale Jesus (Yehoshuah) appears little and, fittingly, what we learn of him is told by others; his mother, Judas (Iehuda), the High Priest of Jerusalem and Bar-Avo (Barabbas). It's a rich, moving and thoughtful story that tackles faith, love, pride and the sheer transformative power of stories