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Perversities of Faith [Kindle Edition]

Mark Say
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Stories about when religion becomes absurd and unsafe

He Died
How to take advantage of a botched execution

The Golden Duck
A suicide bomber plays his last game of cricket

Confession
A priest is tortured by a stranger's revelation

A Kosher Marriage
A Jewish wife, a gentile husband and a bacon sandwich

Harijan
When a Hindu woman violates the family honour

Crusaders
An office is subject to a holy invasion

Duck in a Bottle
Locking up a disc jockey with a Buddhist dissident

Touching the Turban
A police officer provokes a Sikh

Blood
Does this boy have a right to exist?

The Audit
A journalist places his mind on the line for a story

The Burqa Rebellion
Raging inside a black sheet

Mint on the Breath
A man tracks down an ageing priest

Eternal Love
Marriage in the afterlife

The Rationalist
An inquisitor fears for his daughter

Talking with God
The Almighty has surprising words for an evangelist preacher

About the Author

Mark Say is a native and lifelong resident of London who has had a long career as a journalist, writing for a number of publications including The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal Europe. Perversities of Faith is his first published fiction, a collection of stories that deal with the quirks and extremities of religion.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 422 KB
  • Print Length: 295 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1478219955
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  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0087D166E
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  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Rude about religion, but good to his characters 22 Sep 2012
By SA
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I bought the book because I know the author, but I thoroughly enjoyed it regardless.

Some of the stories, such as 'Duck in a Bottle' and 'Confession', ask the reader what they would do in impossible situations imposed by religion, while others, like 'The Golden Duck' - a story of a cricket-loving suicide bomber - work as mini-thrillers. Others, such as 'A Kosher Marriage' (featuring a dad who has to negotiate his love of a full English breakfast, his Jewish wife and his daughter's attempt to bring these together) and 'The Burqa Rebellion' (which considers how a teenager might react to being forced to wear a burqa, and could be renamed Fifty Shades of Black) are very funny slices of life, in which Mark catches the voice of rebellious young women rather well.

While he is often rude about aspects of religion (and, in one story, atheism as well), Mark gives his main characters a strong humanity - these are stories about people, not just fictionalised rants.

I would recommend 'Perversities of Faith' to anyone who likes Roald Dahl-like short stories with a snappy plot and twist in the tail; and is thoughtful about the way religion can affect people's lives in bizarre ways.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perversities of Faith 27 Aug 2012
By Steven
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A really enjoyable read with some thought provoking and inventive stories. I particularly liked "duck in a bottle" and "Eternal Love" and while a might not quite agree with some of the views (The Rationalist is more about secularism than Rationalism) they hang together well as a body of work. Ideal bedtime or beach reading!
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