Aislinn Hunter – The Certainties (retail) (epub)
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Name: Aislinn Hunter – The Certainties (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 3.12 MB
Book:
Title: The Certainties
Author: Aislinn Hunter
Language: English
Year: 2020
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 9781639883295
Total pages: 460 str.
Description:
From Aislinn Hunter, the award-winning author of The World Before Us, comes a vivid novel reminiscent of Anthony Doerr and Michael Ondaatje, about the entwined fates of two very different refugees in two distinct moments: a war-torn Spanish border town in the 1940s; and a British island in the 1970s, as a ship full of would-be migrants approaches shore.
1940 in the Spanish border city of Portbou. As the shadow of fascism lengthens over Europe, three mysterious travellers arrive in town. They carry themselves with the casual ease of Parisian intellectuals, but in reality this trio of two men and a woman are starving, desperate and exhausted from dodging bullets and German forces to cross illegally through the Pyrenees. Their goal is to escape notice in Spain long enough to book transit to Portugal, and then to the USA. Their story, told over a period of 48 absorbing and tense hours, is narrated by one of the men, a writer who gradually accepts…
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