Whispered Secrets Whispered Prayers

Whispered Secrets Whispered Prayers

Urs Wagnor, a second-generation German from Russia, is a tenant farmer with a fierce love for the land that should be his. Instead in the spring of 1946, in the wake of farm failures and foreclosures, his fields belong to â€œHumpyâ€ Chris, a calculating landlord deformed in body and soul, who begrudges men like Urs, scratching lives from the poor North Dakota soil. Urs doesnâ€™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 steppes a century before. Beholden and resentful of Urs, Margaret lives secretly enshrined with the memory of her first husband, Lars, father of Danny, her oldest. Now Margaret is pregnant againâ€”and Urs wants a son.
Urs, Chris and Margaret are unwittingly ensnared in a web of calamity and ruin when Danny falls in love with the beautiful landlordâ€™s wife. Only six-year-old Annie, Urs and Margaretâ€™s child possesses the innocent powers of insight, imagination and compassion that might save them from themselves.
Whispered Secrets, Whispered Prayers, is a marrow-deep, character-driven story in the tradition of O.E.Rolvaagâ€™s classic Giants in the Earth. The simple words and sentiments of common people belie the enormity and danger of human passions and their twisted and hidden source. Set on the desolate North American wind-flattened prairie, under the vast dome of pitiless sky, the novel is a tense psychological and surreal drama. The poor rocky land is itself a powerful character, as is the vast ever-changing sky shifting with the narrative from dreamy solitude to churning conflict. I am hoping you enjoy this fictionalized tale of one family of these late coming settlers to the American Prairies. .
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-12-06
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-12-06
Format	Kindle eBook