This tour de force of imagination and language is a portrait so vivid and convincing that our image of Mary will be forever transformed. This woman who we know from centuries of paintings and scripture as the docile, loving, silent, long-suffering, obedient, worshipful mother of Christ becomes, in Toibin’s searing evocation, a tragic heroine with the relentless eloquence of Electra or Medea or Antigone. Mary judges herself ruthlessly (she did not stay at the foot of the Cross until her son died-she fled, to save herself), and is equally harsh on her judgment of others. They lived in a town called Bethany, about two miles from Jerusalem. The three siblings were also close friends of Jesus Christ. Mary and Martha were the sisters Lazarus, the man Jesus raised from the dead. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God nor that his death was “worth it ” nor that the “group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye,” were holy disciples. The story of Mary and Martha takes place in Luke 10:38-42 and John 12:2. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel-her keepers, who provide her with food and shelter and visit her regularly. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Tóibín’s portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity.In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. In this brave and thoughtful novella, Colm Tibn fills in the gaps. The Bible tells us little about the interior life of Jesus Christ's mother. Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Tóibín’s portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity.In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. The Testament of Mary by Colm Tibn review.
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