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Title: Whispered Secrets, Whispered Prayers
Author: Donna B. Mack
Narrator: Leslie Cates
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-01-15
Publisher: Donna Mack
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Whispered Secrets, Whispered Prayers is a gritty, marrow-deep story of one of the families of Germans from Russia who settled on the American Prairie. Urs Wagnor is a sometimes crude and prideful tenant farmer with a fierce love for land that should be his. Instead, in the spring of 1946, in the wake of farm failures and foreclosures, his fields belong to "Humpy" Chris, a calculating landlord deformed in body and soul. Urs doesn't own his land any more than he owns the heart of his wife, Margaret, who loves the god that sustains her, just as it sustained her German peasant ancestors who settled and struggled on the Russian steppe a century before. Now, Margaret is pregnant again - and Urs wants a son.
The simple words and sentiments of common people belie the enormity and danger of human passions and their twisted and hidden source. Only their child, Annie, has the innocent powers of insight, imagination, and compassion that might save them from themselves. She perceives the desolate wind-flattened prairie as a never-ending expanse of death and rebirth, peopled with creatures of mythical dimensions.
Whispered Secrets, Whispered Prayers is a psychological, character-driven story in the tradition of Kent Haruf's Plainsong. It also recalls the terse, tense drama of O.E. Rolvaag's classic Giants in the Earth. Here, the vast dome of ever-changing sky shifts with the narrative from dreamy solitude to churning conflict. The author, Donna B. Mack, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts and has a MFA in creative writing from UAA.
Members Reviews:
Wonderful read!
Many years ago I heard a teacher say that conflict was necessary to a story, and felt an inner protest. Although there is struggle and pain in this novel, the main characters are revealed to us as we enter their world, what they see, feel, think. This is not a tale of winners and losers, but of characters struggling to become themselves, struggling to move out of fear into love, a la A Course in Miracles. In addition, the reader is treated to detailed and poetic observation of their North Dakota world as well as the language, customs and food of the Germans who emigrated to Russia then came here. I found this a stunning,
beautifully written book that I will happily recall for a long time.
A poignant study in the paradoxes of life.
Donna Mackâs new novel, WHISPERED SECRETS WHISPERED PRAYERS, tells the poetic story of one German immigrant family who struggles against all odds to survive the hardships of farming on the flatlands of Midwest America in 1947.
The novel is peppered throughout with memorable characters brought together after enduring unimaginable heartbreaks. Margaret and Lars, their children Danny, Lizzy and Wayne; Humpy Chris and his beautiful young wife Juanita, and Urs Wagnor and his young daughter Annie, all become enmeshed in a struggle to survive not only the shadows from their respective pasts, but from the hidden mysteries of the human condition.
An amazing command of metaphor, imagery, dialogue and storytelling will entrance readers in this seemingly simple story expertly woven with vivid detail and intricate descriptions. Ms. Mackâs occasional juxtaposition of complimentary scenes depicts the skill of an accomplished writer. The human archetypes we can all relate to become the secret variables her characters must all learn to rise above. Ms.
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Title: Whispered Secrets, Whispered Prayers
Author: Donna B. Mack
Narrator: Leslie Cates
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-01-15
Publisher: Donna Mack
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Whispered Secrets, Whispered Prayers is a gritty, marrow-deep story of one of the families of Germans from Russia who settled on the American Prairie. Urs Wagnor is a sometimes crude and prideful tenant farmer with a fierce love for land that should be his. Instead, in the spring of 1946, in the wake of farm failures and foreclosures, his fields belong to "Humpy" Chris, a calculating landlord deformed in body and soul. Urs doesn't own his land any more than he owns the heart of his wife, Margaret, who loves the god that sustains her, just as it sustained her German peasant ancestors who settled and struggled on the Russian steppe a century before. Now, Margaret is pregnant again - and Urs wants a son.
The simple words and sentiments of common people belie the enormity and danger of human passions and their twisted and hidden source. Only their child, Annie, has the innocent powers of insight, imagination, and compassion that might save them from themselves. She perceives the desolate wind-flattened prairie as a never-ending expanse of death and rebirth, peopled with creatures of mythical dimensions.
Whispered Secrets, Whispered Prayers is a psychological, character-driven story in the tradition of Kent Haruf's Plainsong. It also recalls the terse, tense drama of O.E. Rolvaag's classic Giants in the Earth. Here, the vast dome of ever-changing sky shifts with the narrative from dreamy solitude to churning conflict. The author, Donna B. Mack, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts and has a MFA in creative writing from UAA.
Members Reviews:
Wonderful read!
Many years ago I heard a teacher say that conflict was necessary to a story, and felt an inner protest. Although there is struggle and pain in this novel, the main characters are revealed to us as we enter their world, what they see, feel, think. This is not a tale of winners and losers, but of characters struggling to become themselves, struggling to move out of fear into love, a la A Course in Miracles. In addition, the reader is treated to detailed and poetic observation of their North Dakota world as well as the language, customs and food of the Germans who emigrated to Russia then came here. I found this a stunning,
beautifully written book that I will happily recall for a long time.
A poignant study in the paradoxes of life.
Donna Mackâs new novel, WHISPERED SECRETS WHISPERED PRAYERS, tells the poetic story of one German immigrant family who struggles against all odds to survive the hardships of farming on the flatlands of Midwest America in 1947.
The novel is peppered throughout with memorable characters brought together after enduring unimaginable heartbreaks. Margaret and Lars, their children Danny, Lizzy and Wayne; Humpy Chris and his beautiful young wife Juanita, and Urs Wagnor and his young daughter Annie, all become enmeshed in a struggle to survive not only the shadows from their respective pasts, but from the hidden mysteries of the human condition.
An amazing command of metaphor, imagery, dialogue and storytelling will entrance readers in this seemingly simple story expertly woven with vivid detail and intricate descriptions. Ms. Mackâs occasional juxtaposition of complimentary scenes depicts the skill of an accomplished writer. The human archetypes we can all relate to become the secret variables her characters must all learn to rise above. Ms.