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|title=The Testament of Mary

|sort=Testament of Mary, The

|publisher=Viking

|date=September 2012

|website=http://www.colmtoibin.com/

|summary=A short novella about Mary's rage and guilt concerning the death of her son. Well written but curiously slight.

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The subject matter for Colm Tóibín's ''The Testament of Mary'' is exactly what the title suggests in that it relates Mary's feelings about the death of her son, Jesus, whose name it hurts her too much to even mention. It's a curiously slight offering though. Its 100 odd pages lands it somewhere between short story and novella territory. Even so, with Tóibín's excellence as a writer and the emotive subject matter, I expected to be more engaged with the story than I was.