Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary is the moving story of the Virgin Mary, told
by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the family. From the author
of Brooklyn, in a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament
of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grie
f.
For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and
in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her
son's brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who co
uld not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change. As her life and her
suffering begin to acquire the resonance of myth, Mary struggles to break the si
lence surrounding what she knows to have happened.
