Go, Proclaim from the Mountain

James Arthur Baldwin 1924–1987 – one of the most significant American writers of the 20th century, a profound and talented master of psychological realism. The first novel by James Baldwin, which instantaneously transformed the emerging writer into one of the most iconic figures in American literature. Three prayers. Three confessions. Three perspectives on the history of an African American family, which begins during the years of the Civil War and extends to the 1930s. Three desperate, heart-wrenching cries – to the heavens and into the depths of one’s own soul. A Black preacher fervently calls out to the Lord, tormented by the weight of a long-standing sin. His sister mournfully laments – an unwitting participant in a distant drama. The wife of the priest – the mother of his stepson John, who desperately argues with the cruelty of human and divine judgment, has a past that conceals her own tragedy. And what about the young John himself? He is still preparing to find his own voice. What will he pray to the Lord for? And whose prayers will the Lord hear?