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[Kathi Kemp-Tejeda]

Thanks!  Have actually just started "Thread of Grace"
by Russell, but had missed "The Sparrow."  And the
patron is grateful. 
 
--- Emily Horner <emily.horner at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is very likely "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria
> Russell:
> 
> "An enigma wrapped inside a mystery sets up
> expectations that prove
> difficult to fulfill in Russell's first novel, which
> is about first
> contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. The
> enigma is Father
> Emilio Sandoz, a Jesuit linguist whose messianic
> virtues hide his
> occasional doubt about his calling. The mystery is
> the climactic turn
> of events that has left him the sole survivor of a
> secret Jesuit
> expedition to the planet Rakhat and, upon his
> return, made him a
> disgrace to his faith. Suspense escalates as the
> narrative ping-pongs
> between the years 2016, when Sandoz begins
> assembling the team that
> first detects signs of intelligent extraterrestrial
> life, and 2060,
> when a Vatican inquest is convened to coax an
> explanation from the
> physically mutilated and emotionally devastated
> priest."-- from the
> Publishers Weekly review.
> 
> Emily Horner
> 
> On 3/12/07, Kathi Kemp-Tejeda
> <batonrouger2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Find a book alert:
> >
> > Patron is looking for a book about a missionary
> who
> > gets sent to another planet, stays there for a
> time,
> > and before he comes back to Earth, his hands are
> cut
> > between the fingers practically down to his
> wrists.
> > They mystery is why the cutting.  Main character,
> if
> > recalled correctly, has an Hispanic name.  Book
> has a
> > sequel.
> >
> > Does this ring a bell with anyone?
> >
> > Thanks!
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