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"The long-awaited prequel to the acclaimed best-seller, ""Father Elijah"", ""Sophia House"" is set in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Pawel Tarnowski, a bookseller, gives refuge to David Schafer, a Jewish youth who has escaped from the ghetto, and hides him in the attic of his bookshop. Throughout the winter of 1942 - 43, haunted by the looming threat of discovery, they discuss good and evil, sin and redemption, literature and philosophy. Decades later, David is to become a convert to Catholicism: he will be the Carmelite priest Father Elijah called by the Pope to confront the Antichrist in Michael O'Brien's best-selling novel of the same name. In this ""prequel"", the cast of characters includes the notorious Count Smokrev, a French novelist, a terrifying Polish bear, a Nazi major, the Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev, and Pawel's beloved Kahlia, the elusive figure who moves through the story as an unseen presence. This is a novel about small choices that shift the balance of the world. Other titles in this series: ""Father Elijah"", ""Plague Journal"", ""Strangers and Sojourners"", ""Eclipse of the Sun"", and ""A Cry of Stone"". Michael O'Brien is also a well-known artist, specialising in religious themes."

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Michael D. O'Brien, iconographer, painter, and writer, is the popular author of many best-selling novels including Father Elijah, The Father's Tale, Eclipse of the Sun, Sophia House, Theophilos, and Island of the World. His novels have been translated into twelve languages and widely reviewed in both secular and religious media in North America and Europe.

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