In the Shadow of the Ark

'Over a wide excavation in the hard ground stood a gigantic scaffold with a boat-shaped structure trapped in a web of vertical and horizontal girders. This was what the people in the desert had been laughing about: the ship in the stony desert... Yet the stores of timber and pitch all around revealed its makers' ambition. That was the first thing we, as people looking for work, sensed: that the project down there was being carried along by something powerful, that it had gone far beyond being just a dream...'

It was the rising waters that chased Re Jana's family from their home in the marshes. They fled to the desert, following the trail of animals and people who had gone before them. And there, in the dry centre of the desert, rose the frame of a boat of unprecedented proportions. What was it doing there? And what could explain the city of industry that had grown up around it?

The rumour of the flood to come is too terrible to be true, and like most, Re Jana does not believe it. How could a god - anyone's god - determine who deserves to live and who to die?

In the middle of this rolling cauldron of events, Anne Provoost spins a literary page-turner and a love story that builds in power from page to page, like a gathering storm.


Genre: Inspirational