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"[A] true jewel from a writer as discreet as gifted."--"Le Libraire"
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"Mining from the past, Desjardins extracts treasures without "getting caught," and surfaces like a breath of fresh air. A Covenant of Salt marries literary traditions in a sleek gothic ceremony, silvery salt sprinkled like confetti and the Saint Lawrence coursing through."
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Since the death of her parents in 1791, Lily McEvoy has lived as a recluse in her isolated Armagh County manor with her two maidservants and Titus, the farmhand who has become her whipping boy. But tonight, the heiress is expecting company. Her guest is Master Anselm, the legendary stonecutter who has transformed the estate’s abandoned salt mine into an immense funerary monument to the memory of the McEvoy family, sculpting bas-reliefs in the chapels, crypts, and tombs he has carved out of the rock salt of its cavernous walls.
Drawing from the history of the conquest of Quebec and Irish legend, this new exquisitely exotic novel explores the snares of individual and collective memory as they are used to justify and preserve ancestral grudges.
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- VerlagTalonbooks
- Erscheinungsdatum2008
- ISBN 10 0889225664
- ISBN 13 9780889225664
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Buchbeschreibung Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Since the death of her parents in 1791, Lily McEvoy has lived as a recluse in her isolated Armagh County manor with her two maidservants and Titus, the farmhand who has become her whipping boy. But tonight, the heiress is expecting company. Her guest is Master Anselm, the legendary stone cutter who has transformed the estates abandoned salt mine into an immense funerary monument to the memory of the McEvoy family, sculpting bas-reliefs in the chapels, crypts and tombs he has carved out of the rock salt of its cavernous walls.Lily is sniffing powdered salt in the attic as she summons the shadow of her father, the cruel Irish Rear Admiral Magnus McEvoy, hero of the capture of Quebec and absolute master of his estate, and of her mother, the mysterious Laurence, she of the webbed feet who emerged from the river of a stormy night.But the same salt that has preserved Lilys memories is desiccating her. Her obsession with the past now risks transforming her, like Lots wife, into a pillar of saltcrystallized by the familys abominable secrets. These secrets, and the instrument of her revenge, she will today finally reveal to Anselm over their precipitous evening meal.Drawing from the history of the conquest of Quebec and Irish legend, this is an exotic new way to tell a very old story. This novel explores the snares of individual and collective memory as they are used to justify and preserve ancestral grudges. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780889225664
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