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product_id: 66530221
title: "Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories"
brand: "joan silber"
price: "¥5954"
currency: JPY
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 8
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# Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories

**Brand:** joan silber
**Price:** ¥5954
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- **What is this?** Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories by joan silber
- **How much does it cost?** ¥5954 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    Satisfying Ring of Stories
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2021*

“Ideas of Heaven” (A Ring of Stories), by Joan Silber (2004), is the 6th book by Silber that I’ve read this year, and my favorite. Clearly I enjoy her “signature” and highly effective structure of interrelated stories and varying points of view.  It really is her forte!These stories come “full circle” in a most satisfying way. My favorite was the eponymous “Ideas of Heaven” story about a missionary family during the Boxer Rebellion. What a gut-punch in SO MANY WAYS.

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    You will thank me if you buy and read this book
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2008*

I have just ordered Joan Silber's new volume of short stories, "The Size of the World," and, thinking back onhow much I enjoyed this book, I decided to take the time out of my life to be a bit generous, to take the timeto tell others--you, who happen to be reading this review just now--how very, very good the book is.This book of inter-connected stories is one of the best reading experiences I've had in the last ten years.Oh, yes, there are one or two or three novels which outpace this book, but right behind those three giantscomes this smallish book.  The stories are enormously varied, and yet each one is imbued with the veryessence of truth.  A story about a would-be dancer who simply doesn't have the stuff?  Oh, I believed every word.  A story about a family of people who pull up stakes in America and go off to save souls for Christianityin China?  Unforgettable.Again, you will think back and say, "Oh, yeah, that guy who wrote that review on e-bay helped me make upmy mind to buy that Silber book.  He was right.  I do thank him."

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Unusual, Fascinating
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2004*

The title alone is enough to capture the interest of a thoughtful reader, but the author's approach of using a "ring" of six stories to tell an even larger, far more panoramic story of life on earth and the human condition is even more fascinating -- though, perhaps, not always successful, since some of the inter-story connections seem a tad more forced and obscure than revealing.  But the gradual, collective force and impact of this work are remarkable by the time one finishes the aptly titled sixth story, "The Same Ground." It is satisfying and reassuring to encounter an author who has thought deeply and felt deeply, and as a consequence has richly imagined this world.  (In spite of the title or because of it, this world is what this book is about.)

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