The Forgotten People: A Year Among the Hutterites (Das Vergessene Volk)

The Forgotten People: A Year Among the Hutterites (Das Vergessene Volk) by Holzach, Michael. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780944287118.

Michael Holzach retreated from the stressful bustle of the 20th century and had thrust himself into the serene but incongruous world of the Hutterites, a communal society dating back over 400 years. But what he found there was far from comforting. What began as a simple experiment in "fly-on-the-wall" journalism soon became complicated by Holzachs struggle fully to know, fully to enter the Hutterite mind and heart. The result is a book of extraordinary power, documenting not only the amazing history of a courageous and dedicated people, but also the sojourn of a person confronting his beliefs, his longings and his fears.