Lazarus The Goat - Softcover

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This is a story that asks the question "Do the Miracles of Christ Have an Expiration Date?" It begins in modern times in west-central Portugal when the narrator meets a farmer who claims to own a talking goat. Of course our man must see and talk with this miraculous goat, and when he does, the goat makes the outrageous claim that he is the living Lazarus raised from the grave as told in John: 11: 43. The wonderful discoursing, multi-lingual goat then begins an arabesque story of immortality and transformation from human form to goat-hood by a Moorish enchantress during the Portuguese inquisition in 1607. To our narrator's frustration, the goat manages to weave this tale into an account of his adventurous life as a bandit goat in the mountains of eastern Portugal. The latter story, in turn, is linked to an amusing yarn about an encounter between the goat and author Miguel Cervantes of Don Quixote fame in 1610. So Lazarus, the immortal goat, appears intent on spinning an endless story of an endless life that would make the good lady Scheherazade blush. But this fabulous narrative is unexpectedly brought to violent closure by an angry farmer's wife with a very sharp butcher's knife.

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