The Orchard Keepers
Autor Robert Pepper-Smithen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2017
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781926455907
ISBN-10: 1926455908
Pagini: 364
Dimensiuni: 140 x 215 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: NeWest Press
Colecția NeWest Press (CA)
ISBN-10: 1926455908
Pagini: 364
Dimensiuni: 140 x 215 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: NeWest Press
Colecția NeWest Press (CA)
Recenzii
With considerable skill and sensitivity, Robert Pepper-Smith reveals something both tragic and magical in his story of three friends whose childhood village and its essential orchards are flooded by an ambitious government, driving the population out of their homes and into the dangers and uncertainties of a larger world. In exploring the survivors' fates he has given us a wonderfully original, ambitious, and engaging novel. -- Jack Hodgins, author of Cadillac Cathedral and The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne
The Orchard Keepers is a novel of fierce, quiet resistance. Against a backdrop of the flooding of Columbia River valleys for hydroelectric dams in the 1950s and the displacement of Guatemalan farmers by foreign mining interests in the 1970s, the lives of the characters incandesce, defying despotism in all its forms. Staunch, independent, unique, they bear witness to the real power of human connection, patiently transmitting language, memory, and nurture. -- Karen Hofmann, author of After Alice and Water Strider
The Orchard Keepers is a novel of fierce, quiet resistance. Against a backdrop of the flooding of Columbia River valleys for hydroelectric dams in the 1950s and the displacement of Guatemalan farmers by foreign mining interests in the 1970s, the lives of the characters incandesce, defying despotism in all its forms. Staunch, independent, unique, they bear witness to the real power of human connection, patiently transmitting language, memory, and nurture. -- Karen Hofmann, author of After Alice and Water Strider
Notă biografică
Robert Pepper-Smith was born in Revelstoke, BC. He currently lives on a farm in the Cinnabar valley with his wife Anna and teaches philosophy at Vancouver Island University. His childhood in Revelstoke and his experience as a volunteer paramedic with the NGO Alianza in Guatemala have inspired this work. The Wheel Keeper (NeWest 2002) was his first full-length work of fiction. In September 2011, NeWest Press released Robert's second novella, House of Spells. The Orchard Keepers, a collection of these two books with a third, Sanctuary, which finishes the series, was released in Spring 2017.