In 1996 Paul Park published The Gospel of Corax, a highly acclaimed
rendering of a theosophist legend, describing Jesus of Nazareth's
journey to the Indian subcontinent and Tibet. In Three Marys, his
new novel, Park returns to first-century Palestine to recreate with
penetrating insight the historical community of Jesus, and to
follow the first tangled strands of Christianity after his death.
Here is Jesus's world as it very likely was, confused, conflicted,
rife with messianic rumor and factional ambition; here is the
brazen cruelty of Roman occupation and the domestic oppression that
mirrored it, seen through the eyes of the women who knew Jesus
best. This is the story not only of Christ but of the three Marys
who survived him and were true to him, each in their own way. Their
inner and outer narratives, sometimes tortured, sometimes
rhapsodic, make up the spare but radiant tapestry of this novel.
There is Mary of Magdala, visionary and wandering, perhaps Jeshua's
wife; there is his mother Mary, tough, charismatic, earthy,
ultimately desolated by his loss; and there is Mary of Bethany, the
girl who followed Jeshua in his last days and has to bear the
burden of her undying brother Lazarus for decades afterwards.
Outcasts because of their sex, yet possessors between them of some
fragmented sense of the true ineffable nature of Christ the man and
Christ the messiah, they are presented with luminous tragic
humanity and given proper voice at last. Paul Park is one of
contemporary American literature's most subtle and original
explorers of religious experience. As exotic in coloring and as
rich in understanding as his superb science fantasy novels, Three
Marys is a masterpiece of historicaland spiritual reconstruction.
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