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Summary: written with angelic authority.
Review: This book is a real page-turner and fun to read. I would describe it as a light and lyrical fable with refreshing moral undertones. Because the narrator of the story is the archangel Raphael, the reader is afforded inside information from someone in direct contact with the Holy One. We get to identify with the characters in the story as they struggle with discerning the will of God in certain areas... and we get to hear Raphael's often humorous impression of these struggles. No-one in the story is aware of Raphael's real identity because he has assumed the personage of a normal man named Azarias and commits to accompany the main character Tobias in quest of a family fortune. Hence, the book's title. Along the way, Raphael lets us in on the following paradox. He tells us that too often the world not only BELIEVES in God for all the wrong reasons, but it also DISBELIEVES in God for all the wrong reasons. There is a subtle, yet clear message in this story that the Holy One is not the cosmic "Scorekeeper" that the characters continually make him out to be. Although all earthly indications may appear as such, the Holy One never looks upon his creation with indifference. But this is not a textbook, it's just a really good "out-there-on-the-beach-blanket" whimsical story with a dash of sound theology sprinkled throughout... by an angel.
Rating: 
Summary: a elegant book on life, god, the forces out of our control
Review: To convey an idea does not require thousands of pages, to tell a story that one remembers does not require the excess of words either. Some what similar at times to stories told in the unabridged version of Arabian Nights and by the Brothers Grim among others - A pleasant story of alls well that ends well. I liked it well enought to tell you to read the book.
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