English writer Sarah Winman wrote a novel about a good and just God. He arranges for the blind to gain sight, for the missing to be found, for the cancer patient to recover; he heals heart wounds, blesses same-sex love, does not punish anyone, and in general he is a fluffy rabbit, the same one that was once presented to little and lonely Ellie for her birthday.
English writer Sarah Winman wrote a novel about a good and just God. He arranges for the blind to gain sight, for the missing to be found, for the cancer patient to recover; he heals heart wounds, blesses same-sex love, does not punish anyone, and in general he is a fluffy rabbit, the same one that was once presented to little and lonely Ellie for her birthday. The rabbit has a hoarse, quiet voice (not everyone hears it), and two or three words, the simplest ones — “do not cry, everything will end well, everything always ends well” — is enough for him to console. The faith that Sarah Winman describes is simple-minded, not at all canonical, and even frivolous. But it’s better to believe in a rabbit (after all, Clive Lewis’ God was a lion) than to know neither mercy nor compassion. “How dare you call a rabbit God?! Ellina, the schoolteacher, rages. Do you know what blasphemy is?! This is an insult to God. For what you did, you would have been stoned in another country.” I shuddered because I had a pretty clear idea of who would throw the first stone.»
Translation from English by Irina Pander.
Alphabet-Atticus, 352 p.