Matvejevic Predrag - Our Daily Bread - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Our Daily Bread charmingly weaves together the customs rituals anecdotes legends and sayings that tell the story of bread from Mesopotamia through Egypt to the Far East ancient Greece ancient Rome and the New World. Matvejevi shows how bread is depicted in literature and art (with beautiful illustrations) and examines especially closely the role of bread in the major world religions drawing from the Bible Talmud and Quran but also at various apocryphal texts. In his seventh and last chapter his narrative moves to the personal explaining what motivated him to write this book; the lean years of his childhood during World War II and his father's detention in a German concentration camp. Warning about the pending threat of hunger in the developed world the book fittingly ends with a quote from the Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin: The question of bread must take precedence over all other questions.
Title: Our Daily Bread
Author(s): Matvejevic Predrag
Publisher: Istros Books
Barcode: 9781912545094
Pages: 140 Pages
Publication Date: 9/10/2020
Category: Society & Culture: General