Mesmerizing storytelling, great themes embodied and hidden in the workings of realistic relationships and lives, precise language and a strong whiff of the uncanny -- a magnificent novel. * A moving and memorable epic tale that spans decades and continents to bring us the riches of one family's history of intertwined lives. * In the farming country of Winnipeg, two brothers grow up and apart in the 1930s, gravitating towards a parent each as mother and father themselves find a changing climate in world affairs reaching ...
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Mesmerizing storytelling, great themes embodied and hidden in the workings of realistic relationships and lives, precise language and a strong whiff of the uncanny -- a magnificent novel. * A moving and memorable epic tale that spans decades and continents to bring us the riches of one family's history of intertwined lives. * In the farming country of Winnipeg, two brothers grow up and apart in the 1930s, gravitating towards a parent each as mother and father themselves find a changing climate in world affairs reaching out to their rural backwater and prising them asunder...* Exhaustion is crippling FIka at the icecap; it's midwinter 1960, and she's lost her companions to a frosty death, can barely carry her lifeblood, and must still ski for a month yet to reach civilization on the other side of the North Pole. Will she survive? Where will she find the will? * Quite how these two gripping tales on their separate sides of the globe unfold and come together as mesmerizingly as they do is the beauty and the accomplishment of this magical epic.
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Good. RELIABLE library withdrawal with a dust jacket in the plastic, protective cover. Stamped at the page edge with a card pocket page on the inside. The card pocket has been removed by the library leaving a mark. Light scuff to the plastic cover. This edition is PRESENTABLE!
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. BH6-A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps and pocket on the top outside paper edges, front and back endpapers, and title page plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. A novel set in the middle part of the 20th century including World War II and the Korean War. It is about twin sons of German immigrants to Canada and the extraordinary events set off when one of them, suffering after the death of a sister, kidnaps an infant girl. By the author of "To All Appearances a Lady." 294p.
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Fine/Fine. Size: 5x1x8; Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 294 pages, black quarter cloth with gilt title on spine; with the publisher's review slips laid in. A fine, clean, hard cover first edition with slight shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, clean, lightly rubbed dust jacket, with original price.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0060191481. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book 0060191481 First edition, First printing. Not inscribed clipped or otherwise marked. Shipped in a box. Complete # line 10987654321. F/F.
