{"product_id":"a-kiss-for-the-leper","title":"A Kiss for the Leper","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBy François Mauriac | With an Essay by Anthony Esolen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Kiss for the Leper\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/em\u003efirmly established future Nobel Prize-winner François Mauriac as one of the twentieth century’s preeminent novelists. Jean Péloueyre, heir to an extensive estate in southern France, is a maladroit, misshapen, misbegotten young man. The very antithesis of a hero, Jean is very much in need of saving. And yet, as Anthony Esolen writes in his accompanying essay, “The redeemers and the redeemed are not whom we expect.” Against Nietzschean notions of power and sentimental dilutions of Christianity, Mauriac casts Jean and his young bride as cooperators in redemption, leprous, unenlightened souls whose Redeemer bore the punishment that makes them—and us—whole. Like in the novels which would develop his renown, \u003ci\u003eVipers’ Tangle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Woman of the Pharisees\u003c\/i\u003e, Mauriac crafts a story that is visceral, violent, and saturated with the mystery of mercy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eThere are no Masters. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eWe are all of us born slaves \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eand we grow into the freedom of the Lord.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrançois Mauriac \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(1885–1970) was a French, Roman Catholic novelist, poet, critic, and journalist. Critically acclaimed and respected, Mauriac received the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française for his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Desert of Love\u003c\/i\u003e; awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d’honneur; and was laureate of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1944418564\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100024496495,"sku":"978-1944418564","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/Product15_300ea599-e5b6-4b76-93ec-07506419475a.jpg?v=1781124445","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/a-kiss-for-the-leper","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}