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"I'm not a jar to leave in a corner."

That is twelve-year-old Photine, planting herself between her father and the door the night he vanishes forever. Fierce. Unafraid. Refusing to be set aside.

It will not be the last time the world tries.

Before she became the unnamed Samaritan Woman at the well, Photine was a girl with a stonemason's fire in her blood and numbers sharper than any man in the market. When her father disappears into the night, hunted for daring to remember who his people were, Photine's world splits open. Her brother, threatened by her brilliance and burned by shame, sells her into marriage at fourteen. She is loaded onto a cart like grain and sent south, beyond the hills that held every memory she owned.

What follows is a life no sermon has ever told. Five marriages shaped by survival, not sin. A woman who barters, bleeds, buries children, outwits merchants, and builds something from nothing in a world that measures her worth by the men who claim her. From the olive groves of Shechem to the scorched ridges of Akrabbim, from Roman cruelty to the quiet politics of women helping women survive, Photine carries a fire that refusal, grief, and exile cannot kill.

Then one afternoon, at a well she visits alone to dodge the whispers, a stranger asks her for water and sees her entire life in a single glance.

"Come," she tells the town that shunned her, breathless and unguarded. "Come see a man who told me everything I ever did."

And even those who once crossed the street to avoid her followed.

Rooted in biblical scholarship, anthropology, and raw human imagination, Lauree Brown transforms a brief Scripture encounter into an epic novel of exile, motherhood, resilience, and redemption, giving voice to the full, untold life of one of the Bible's most misunderstood women.

Best for readers who loved The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, A Lineage of Grace by Francine Rivers, and Two From Galilee by Marjorie Holmes. Perfect for book clubs, fans of biblical historical fiction, and anyone who believes the women of Scripture deserve more than a footnote.

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• Plný název: Beyond The Well
• Podnázev: The Story of the Samaritan Woman Before and After the Well
• Autor: Lauree Brown
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 442
• EAN: 9781972344132
• ISBN: 1972344137
• ID: 52232653
• Nakladatelství: Parker Publishers
• Hmotnost: 967 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 33 mm
• Datum vydání: 16. April 2026

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