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Title: Battling pride, hate and the human condition
Review: The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme is an absorbing tale of one woman's inner struggle with pride as she battles to live out her deep-seated beliefs and convictions in her life as a nun. The path to God is not an easy one, living twenty-four hours a day in a religious community demanding strict, constant and honest monitoring of one's inner life and thoughts. Gabrielle's personal honesty and recognition of her shortcomings combine to make her personal pilgrimage toward humility seem as an unassailable mountain, the summit moving further from her reach with each passing year, rather than closer. She struggles to shed the pride in her past academic excellence and the pride in being the daughter of an eminent specialist in tropical medicine, and with the advent of war she confronts her ultimate battle when she recognizes that seeds of hate have germinated within her heart, and anchored themselves deep within her soul. An absorbing and compelling read.
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