Book Rec of the Day 2/8/2007

“A level of writing, very rare, that takes your breath away.”—Houston Chronicle

“Deep imagination, stylistic verve, and psychological acuity...It just might strike you as a masterpiece.”—The Washington Post

“The Divine Husband confirms Goldman as one of America’s most significant living novelists.”—Bookforum

Goldman’s acclaimed third novel sees María de las Nieves Moran, an Irish-Central American woman thrown out of the safety of her convent and on a journey to New York City. A sweeping saga of 19th-century ambition and desire by a master fiction writer.

THE DIVINE HUSBAND, by Francisco Goldman (Grove Press, 2005)