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The Sin of Abbé Mouret: A New Translation
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 18 2024
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Paradise is not lost. It is forbidden.
Serge Mouret is the perfect priest-pious, devoted, consumed by a mystical love for God that leaves no room for earthly desire. In the blighted village of Artaud, he ministers to his impoverished flock while denying every human need, every physical sensation, every whisper of the flesh. His faith is absolute. His renunciation is complete.
Then illness shatters him, and he awakens in another world.
Le Paradou is an abandoned estate whose gardens have exploded into wild, intoxicating abundance-a green paradise where nature rules and memory has no claim. Here Serge meets Albine, an innocent girl as untamed as the flowers that surround her. Together they wander through groves and meadows, discovering the garden's secrets and, slowly, inevitably, discovering each other. In this place outside time, outside sin, their love blossoms with the terrible beauty of forbidden fruit.
But paradise cannot last. When memory returns, Serge must choose between the woman who embodies life itself and the vows that demand he renounce it. His choice will destroy them both.
Émile Zola's most lyrical and daring novel is a devastating critique of religious repression and a hymn to the sacred power of nature and desire. With prose that intoxicates like the scent of flowers, he transforms a priest's crisis of faith into an eternal drama: the war between body and soul, earth and heaven, life and the forces that would deny it.
Some sins are necessary. Some paradise must be reclaimed.
From the author of Germinal and Nana-a visionary masterpiece of passion, faith, and the price of purity.
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