From the New York Times-bestselling author of Matterhorn and What
It Is Like to Go to War, a rich family saga about Finnish
immigrants who settle and tame the Pacific Northwest, set against
the early labor movements, World War I, and the upheaval of early
twentieth-century America 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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