WINNIPEG, MB
A brand new volume edited by scholar Rob Zacharias will take its place on library shelves alongside Martyrs Mirror , The Complete Writing of Menno Simons and Royden Loewen’s Blumenort book as the longest books ever written about Mennonites.
“The guy from Friesens dropped them off this afternoon with a forklift,” said Zacharias, editor of In Search of a Mennonite Imagination: Key Texts in Mennonite Literary Criticism . “And that was just half-a-dozen copies of the book. Any more than that and we would have required a crane.”
Zacharias says it’s only appropriate that this work would be as lengthy as those other tomes.
“After all, the essays in the collection contain a poignant mix of the earnestness of Menno Simons with the tragedy of Martyrs Mir