HOUSE OF EARTH

by Dorothy Clarke Wilson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 27, 1952

After three novels dealing with Biblical subjects, Dorothy Clarke Wilson turns to a modern theme,- India on the verge of independence, and a fictional character, Roshan, a Brahmin, in whom the conflicts of an ancient race, rooted in superstition and ignorance, are at odds with the gradual awakening to the Whys of their ways, and the Hows of acceptance of a place in a new world. An a portrait of the convulsions of rebirth, it is enormously interesting. Roshan's own story has an appeal chiefly as a revelation of beliefs and customs remote from our own, rather than as an unfolding of an individual character. Into his life in The Village, comes one dominant influence- a white man who sought by his relations with the people to demonstrate the Christianity he practised. But it took famine and death; the blood bath by which the Hindus ""celebrated"" their new found independence, and the killing of the white man who had befriended one and all to bring Roshan to full acceptance of his future role,- as a doctor, a Christian -- and the husband of Kamala, the Untouchable, whose own faith had carried her far beyond him in the ways of the new india . . . .A book that combines the spiritual values of the earlier books with a modern theme and modern setting.

Pub Date: Oct. 27, 1952

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Westminster

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1952

Categories: FICTION