{"product_id":"sweeter-than-all-the-world-9780676973419","title":"Sweeter Than All The World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRudy Wiebe’s latest novel is at once an enthralling saga of the Mennonite people and one man’s emotional voyage into his heritage and his own self-discovery. Ambitious in its historical sweep, tender and humane, \u003cb\u003eSweeter Than All the World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etakes us on an extraordinary odyssey never before fully related in a contemporary novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe novel tells the story of the Mennonite people from the early days of persecution in sixteenth-century Netherlands, and follows their emigration to Danzig, London, Russia, and the Americas, through the horrors of World War II, to settlement in Paraguay and Canada. It is told episodically in a double-stranded narrative. The first strand consists of different voices of historical figures. The other narrative voice is that of Adam Wiebe, born in Saskatchewan in 1935, whom we encounter at telling stages of his life: as a small boy playing in the bush, as a student hunting caribou a week before his wedding, and as a middle-aged man c","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767905452375,"sku":"9780676973419","price":13.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780676973419.jpg?v=1758715504","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sweeter-than-all-the-world-9780676973419","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}