This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2019 by Jay Parini

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Parini, Jay, author.

Title: The Damascus Road : a novel of Saint Paul / by Jay Parini.

Description: First edition. | New York : Doubleday, [2019]

Identifiers: LCCN 2018021318 | ISBN 9780385522786

Subjects: LCSH: Paul, the Apostle, Saint—Fiction. | Bible. New Testament—History of Biblical events—Fiction. | Apostles—Fiction. | GSAFD: Christian fiction. | Biographical fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3566.A65 D36 2019 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2018021318

Ebook ISBN 9780385538404

Map designed by Jeffrey L. Ward

Cover design by Emily Mahon

Cover images: The Conversion of Saint Paul, 1767. Private Collection. © Fine Art Images/Heritage/The Image Works; (lines) © petr73/Shutterstock

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