| In Bathsheba, Torgny Lindgren creates aworld as rich, strange, and distnrbing as oneis likely to find in fiction. It is the time ofKing David, who rules the Israelites bydivine right. But David succumbs to hisearthly impulses when he sees Bathshehabathing and knows he must have her.Snatched by David from hcr husband,Bathsheba displays maturity and strength ofcharacter unusual in one so young, andexerts a powerful fascination over David. In this rich reworking of the ()hi Testa-meu! story of David and Bathsheha,Lindgren shows us a woman who is not onlythe power behind the throne but a woman farahead of her time. Through the fall of Rab-bah, the rape of Tamar, and Absalom sbauishment, Bathsheha s power in thekingdom grows, as does the imperfect hutinviolable love site shares with her king.Finally, as David experiences the eroding ofhis ahnost mythical power and virility,Bathsheba realizes hcr greatest triumph: theking s promise that her son, Solomon, will bethe future king. |
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