City of Tranquil Light: A Novel

By: Bo Caldwell

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Synopsis: “A beautifully written, often riveting, heartbreaking, heart-healing, wise, and sweet-tempered novel.” A tender and elegiac portrait of a young marriage set against the backdrop of the shifting face of a beautiful but torn nation. Will Kiehn is seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest when, having felt a call from God, he travels to the vast North China Plain in the early twentieth century. There he is surprised by love and weds a strong and determined fellow missionary, Katherine. They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two-thousand-year-old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war. As the couple works to improve the lives of the people of Kuang P’ing Ch’eng—City of Tranquil Light, a place they come to love—and face incredible hardship, will their faith and relationship be enough to sustain them?