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Deep River (Hardcover)
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Deep River (Hardcover)
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Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern
classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes
turns to another mode of storytelling--the family epic--to craft a
stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and
reinvention. In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's
imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski
siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and the politicized young Aino--are forced
to flee to the United States. Not far from the majestic Columbia
River, the siblings settle among other Finns in a logging community
in southern Washington, where the first harvesting of the colossal
old-growth forests begets rapid development, and radical labor
movements begin to catch fire. The brothers face the excitement and
danger of pioneering this frontier wilderness--climbing and felling
trees one-hundred meters high--while Aino, foremost of the books
many strong, independent women, devotes herself to organizing the
industry's first unions. As the Koski siblings strive to rebuild
lives and families in an America in flux, they also try to hold
fast to the traditions of a home they left behind. Layered with
fascinating historical detail, this is a novel that breathes deeply
of the sun-dappled forest and bears witness to the stump-ridden
fields the loggers, and the first waves of modernity, leave behind.
At its heart, Deep River is an ambitious and timely exploration of
the place of the individual, and of the immigrant, in an America
still in the process of defining its own identity.
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