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“I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.” You know that you're holding something really special, when you're barely into the book and yet you're already stunned by the gravity of the book's effect on you. I've read quite a few great novels that tackled God and religion, I'd say the best of which I've read are Coelho's The Alchemist and Martel's Life Of Pi. But John Irving's tale about the faith of two young boys and the miracle that happened between them is something greater. This book will not tell you that it will make you believe in God like Life Of Pi did. It will only tell you the story, it's reason why it does so. It is told in a very earnest, very simple kind of way, and it's very beautiful. It's a novel about dealing with death and living life. It's a novel that's almost like a prayer. Aside from that, this novel also addresses the issues of Religion, the Vietnam War, American Politics, and even the change occurring in people as the years progress. This book published in the year of 1989 rings as true and clear now as it did 24 years before during it's first publication. It's a captivating masterpiece of faith and friendship, of death and life, of doubts and miracles. I can say that this book strengthened if not renewed my faith in God. “If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” Thank you Owen, thank you.
