Malarkey, Tucker. Resurrection.(Brief article)(Book review)

Malarkey, Tucker. Resurrection. Riverhead: Putnam. Aug. 2006. c.352p. ISBN 1-59448-919-X. $24.95. F

In her second novel (after An Obvious Enchantment), Tin House founding editor Malarkey offers an absorbing fictional account of the discovery, history, and repression of the "lost gospels" found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in the 1940s. Although Malarkey draws heavily on Elaine Pagels's respected historical study, The Gnostic Gospels, for subject matter and structure, the fictional world she creates is all her own. When Gemma Bastian's archaeologist father dies unexpectedly, she leaves World War II-torn London for Cairo to see the place he loved and learn more about his …