An introspective novel about displacement, love and loss. Set primarily in Canada, it time travels between the destruction of the Abu Simbel temple in 1964 to the ravishing of Warsaw in WW II. In lyrical, enigmatic and lingering prose Michael describes how Avery, a young engineer, and his botanist wife, Jean, after suffering their own personal tragedy, journey through the landscape of grief in their efforts to find where they truly belong.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 65 Summer 2012 ) |
