Three Women in a Mirror Schmitt Eric-Emmanuel
Three Women in a Mirror Schmitt Eric-Emmanuel Anna, Hanna, and Anny. Despite the centuries that divide them, their stories intersect--a surprising narrative technique that lends increasing tension…
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Three Women in a Mirror Schmitt Eric-Emmanuel
Anna, Hanna, and Anny. Despite the centuries that divide them, their stories intersect--a surprising narrative technique that lends increasing tension and richness to this novel, which builds to a thrilling crescendo of unexpected revelations.Anne lives in Flanders in the sixteenth century. Three young women, free spirits all, each one at odds with the age in which they live.
Yet her ideas run against the temper of the times. She's a mystic who talks with animals like Saint Francis; she finds God in nature and cannot understand the need for religious rituals. It is the age of the counterreformation and the Inquisition.
Her serenity and the loose tongues of those who secretly envy her, result in her being branded a heretic, with tragic consequences. Hanna lives in Vienna at the start of the twentieth century. She is a young noblewoman, dissatisfied with bourgeois conventions, who