Satisfy My Soul (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Colin Channer | knygos.lt

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I have called you here to reveal to you a truth that has been calling to you for many years. . . . Since then your soul has been seeking rest.
Playwright Carey McCullough is a close guardian ofhis privacy, haunted by a recurring dream and a damaged past he would like to keep there. But some things he can never forget. And the more he pushes them away, the more uprooted he feels. The women he has loved, lustedafter, rejected, and embraced represent a lifetime of trial and error, adventure and compromise. Then, while in Jamaica, he crosses paths with a radiant woman who attracts him like a flame.
Then heremembers. The first time Carey saw Frances, she was singing a blues song on a videotape. Of course then she was just a nameless face, a hazy image that he could never quite get out of his mind. Now she has entered hislife in the flesh. But this undeniable attraction is much more than chemistry. As Carey soon discovers from a "reader" of the spirit world, he and Frances share a history that has linked their souls formore than four hundred years. Though Carey views past lives with skepticism, he cannot explain knowing the language of an ancient African people-in particular the phrase: "Mulewe anekoso kuduwebana" ("I will search until I find you").
Yet Frances conceals secrets of her own, with devastating consequences. And while Carey visits his best friend and fellowplaywright, Kwabena Small, in South Carolina, a bond that was once thought to be unbreakable will be put to the ultimate test as startling truths at last emerge. . . .
In a stunning novel ofextraordinary power that involves a mystical journey to Ghana, Colin Channer combines profound questions of faith, the aching search for home, the long reach of history, and the double-edged sword of passion to dazzlingeffect. Satisfy My Soul will linger in yours long after the final page is turned. "From the Hardcover edition."