Description:Historical novel, in which a linear character sews a three-generation plot, going from the late 19th century to the mid-sixties. A black Baptist Pastor in a fictional village in North Carolina, whose life has been told since from his African ancestry to his deathbed, including his passion for music and interaction with black musicians; the daily life of his parish involving racial segregation, sexual abuse and pedophilia; a wife who dies as a result of poor care in a racist hospital; his struggle to raise the child without the mother; his friendship and (fictitious) encounters with pastor Adam Daniel Williams and Pastor King (grandfather and father of Martin Luther King, Jr.); their participation in the struggle for civil rights; his friendship with Theodore, a white, singular, and benevolent Catholic priest, with whom he plays chess weekly, while building togheter, from the gardens of their respective churches, a lasting peace for the social and racial conflicts of the region (hook for the name of the book)...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The gardens of the Lord. To get started finding The gardens of the Lord, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: Historical novel, in which a linear character sews a three-generation plot, going from the late 19th century to the mid-sixties. A black Baptist Pastor in a fictional village in North Carolina, whose life has been told since from his African ancestry to his deathbed, including his passion for music and interaction with black musicians; the daily life of his parish involving racial segregation, sexual abuse and pedophilia; a wife who dies as a result of poor care in a racist hospital; his struggle to raise the child without the mother; his friendship and (fictitious) encounters with pastor Adam Daniel Williams and Pastor King (grandfather and father of Martin Luther King, Jr.); their participation in the struggle for civil rights; his friendship with Theodore, a white, singular, and benevolent Catholic priest, with whom he plays chess weekly, while building togheter, from the gardens of their respective churches, a lasting peace for the social and racial conflicts of the region (hook for the name of the book)...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The gardens of the Lord. To get started finding The gardens of the Lord, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.