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Catalogue details
- Call number
- E 914.96 KOS
- Author
- Myrna Kosrash
- Publisher
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press
- Year published
- 2010
- ISBN
- 0888645341
- Format
- Paperback
- Subject
- History & Geography
- Description
- 337 p.
- Notes
- A deep-seated questioning of her inherited religion resurfaces when Myrna Kostash chances upon the icon of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica. A historical, cultural and spiritual odyssey that begins in Edmonton, ranges around the Balkans, and plunges into a renewed vision of Byzantium in search of the Great Saint of the East delivers the author to an unexpected place-the threshold of her childhood church. An epic work of travel memoir, Prodigal Daughter sings with immediacy and depth, rewarding readers with a profound sense of an adventure they have lived. This book will appeal to readers interested in Ukrainian-Canadian culture, the Eastern Church, and medieval history, as well as to fans of Kostash's bold creative nonfiction.