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Sarah: A Novel (Canaan Trilogy) |  | Author: Marek Halter
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 1400052785
Dewey Decimal Number: 843.914
EAN: 9781400052783
ASIN: 1400052785
Publication Date: April 26, 2005
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Sarah’s story begins in the cradle of civilization: the Sumerian city-state of Ur, a land of desert heat, towering gardens, and immense wealth. The daughter of a powerful lord, Sarah balks at the marriage her father has planned for her. On her wedding day, she impulsively flees to the vast, empty marshes outside the city walls, where she meets a young man named Abram, son of a tribe of outsiders. Drawn to this exotic stranger, Sarah spends one night with him and reluctantly returns to her father’s house. But on her return, she secretly drinks a poisonous potion that will make her barren and thus unfit for marriage.
Many years later, Abram returns to Ur and discovers that the lost, rebellious girl from the marsh has been transformed into a splendid woman—the high priestess of the goddess Ishtar. But Sarah gives up her exalted life to join Abram’s tribe and follow the one true God, an invisible deity who speaks only to Abram. It is then that her journey truly begins.
From the great ziggurat of Ishtar to the fertile valleys of Canaan to the bedchamber of the mighty Pharaoh himself, Sarah’s story reveals an ancient world full of beauty, intrigue, and miracles.
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 Emotional and Inspiring Story September 1, 2010
Ann B. Keller (Cleveland, OH USA)
Sarai was born to one of the great lords of Ur. Hers was a life filled with wealth and beauty until the fateful day when she became a woman. Suddenly, she was expected to marry a man she'd never met and serve him as a virtual slave, his every whim her command. It was not to be borne!
Sarai flees her father's house and plunges into the countryside, where she stumbles across Abram, a simple man to whom she is strangely drawn. Although Sarai is caught and returned to her father, she takes a concoction rendering her barren. Her unique states propels her life along a different course and she becomes a priestess of Ishtar, Ur's goddess of war.
Once more, Abram enters her life and Sarai joins Abram at last, becoming his wife. Although the young couple seems happy enough, Sarai remains barren and no child is born to them. Sarai offers Abram her handmaid, Hagar, to give him the son he so desperately wants. A quarrel eventually breaks out between the two women, as they compete for position in Abram's world.
Told from the point of view of Sarai herself, this book is a unique glimpse into what life in Biblical times might have been like. At times, the story is raw and brutally realistic and at others, Halter's words create visions of inspiration for the faithful. Well written with great characterizations.
 Not accurate, clouds over true story August 31, 2010
Olivia Joy (USA)
I find books like "Sarah" to be disappointing. When you finish it, you put it down thinking, "That did not enlighten me at all about the true story." The story of Sarah and Abraham is very true yet Halter's version left much to be desired. The author took way too much liberty with the story. For example, until she meets Abram, Sarai is a priestess of a pagan nation. While the possibility of this is present, it's a story-line plot that is highly unbelievable. I hope no one reading this takes it for fact.
Quite adult nature in content. In some places its a page turner, but I wouldn't recommend anyone read this book. It's truely fiction and overall probably a waste of time.
 Sarah comes to life! April 4, 2010
B. Thomas (Florida)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although the book "Sarah" and the other two books of the Canaan Trilogy are historical fiction, they are great. They suck you right into the times and certainly reveal much of the history of the ages in which Sarah, Zaphorra and Lilah lived. Tremendous reading.
Give it a miss, seriously March 24, 2010
Katana Geldar (Tasmania, Australia)
Though I no longer consider myself a Christian, I've read quite a few biblical adaptations. Like Anita Diamant's The Red Tent and Orson Scott Card's Women of Genesis series. But this is a serious disappointment as well as an all-round bad novel. Give it a miss and don't worry about the others in the series either.
It begins rather auspiciously, with Sarah being raised as a king's daughter in the city of Ur, then going on to become a priestess and running away to get married to Abram....yeah. It makes very little sense, particularly how Abram and his brother manage to get into the temple and steal away Sarai so she can get married and live outside the city with the dirt and filth of animals.
But perhaps the most absurd thing about this novel is the way Sarah's inability to concieve is portrayed. It appears that Sarai made some sort of deal with God that she would remain young and beautiful but she would be unable to concieve. This has some rather strange consequences, such as when Abram walks around an old doddering man with a woman who appears young enough to be his great grandaughter. And there's also when Lot grows up and tries to make out with Aunt Sarah, who has been like a mother to him.
This is taken to it's logical conclusion, sort of, when Sarah tells God that she would rather have children that be beautiful, and her youth falls away in what was probably meant to be a moving scene but instead was rather disgusting.
Orson Scott Card does a much, much better job with Sarah in his novel, despite the fact of the apocraphal Morman text in the first chapters.
 Just OK September 11, 2009
Lorri Levy-comer (California)
The book read well however I felt it was too fictional. I love historical novels and read them all the time. I felt that the author took too much creative license.
It would have been nice to see some afterward regarding what could and could not be historical. I did not feel satisfied that I knew the character Sarah.
As a matter of fact I purchased another book about Sarah which I think was much better ( by Orson Scott).
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