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Sweeter than all the world / Rudy Wiebe.

by Wiebe, Rudy Henry, 1934-

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Alfred .A. Knopf Canada, 2001.

Mennonites -- History -- Fiction.

Mennonites -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

438 p. ; 23 cm.

Map on endpapers.

The 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 carefully negotiating a temporary separation from his wife. As Adam faces the collapse of his marriage and the disappearance of his daughter, he becomes obsessed with understanding his ancestral past. Wiebe meshes the history of a people with the story of a modern family, laying bare the complexities of desire and family love, religious faith and human frailty.

Canadian fiction.

Historical fiction.

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