From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story
of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of
human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 GILLER PRIZE, GOVERNOR GENERAL'S PRIZE AND
WRITER'S TRUST FICTION AWARD The Innocents is richly imagined and
compulsively readable. A riveting story of hardship and survival,
and an unflinching exploration of the bond between brother and
sister. By turns electrifying and heartbreaking, it is a testament
to the bounty and barbarity of the world, to the wonders and
strangeness of our individual selves. In centuries past, a brother
and sister are orphaned in an isolated outport cove on
Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky
shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of
abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the
barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the
family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by
their mother and father to help them survive. Muddling through the
severe round of the seasons, through years of meagre catches and
storms and ravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each
other that motivates and sustains them. But as seasons pass and
they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that
loyalty will be tested.
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