The Age of Water Lilies - Softcover

Kishkan, Theresa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897142420 ISBN 13: 9781897142424

Verlag: Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd, 2009

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Críticas:

Theresa Kishkan paints a picture of a time gone by . . . The book unfolds deliberately like a grandfather clock ticking. --Coast Reporter

-- (10/01/2009)

Kishkan has a sure hand, kneading narrative from the quiet ache of loss and rebirth . . . Words never get in the way of good storytelling. --Vancouver Sun

-- (10/01/2009)

Kishkan has created characters the reader comes to care about. People, places, and objects operate of both a literal and metaphorical level. --Quill & Quire

-- (10/01/2009)

Kishkan's prose is clearly that of a poet, but it's restrained in service to the narrative-rich and evocative, but never overwrought. --Quill & Quire

-- (10/01/2009)

Reseña del editor:

Arriving in the town of Walhachin in 1912, Flora Oakden falls in love with the dry sagebrush and rolling hills of the area, and with a charismatic labourer. After her lover is sent to fight in the battlefields of France, Flora discovers she is pregnant. Shunned for being unmarried, she heads west to Victoria. Here Flora meets a freethinker who offers her more than just shelter in her home overlooking the Ross Bay Cemetery.
Forward fifty years, and among the headstones of Ross Bay Cemetery the life of a curious and young neighbour, Tessa, becomes interwoven with Flora's. Despite their age difference, the two build a friendship that springs from a shared passion for nature and the past.
It's a sweeping novel that travels from the wrenching hardships of the First World War to the pacificst movement, to 1960s Victoria.

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• Verlag: Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1897142420
• ISBN 13: 9781897142424
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288