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'A monumental achievement . . . I loved it' Maggie O'Farrell A
SINGLE HOUSE DEEP IN THE WOODS OF NEW ENGLAND. OVER 400 YEARS, IT
WILL BE HOME TO a young Puritan couple on the run, an English
soldier with a dream, inseparable twin sisters, a lovelorn painter,
a lusty beetle, a desperate mother, a haunted son, a ruthless
conman, and a stalking panther. Buried secrets and inevitable
fates. Madness, dreams and hope. Everything, and everyone, are
intricately connected. The dark, raucous, beautiful past is very
much alive. Exhilarating, daring and playful, North Woods will
change the way you see the world. 'Ambitious, alive, and lush with
generosity . . . an immersive sprint through time' Tess Gunty
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become home to an extraordinary succession of inhabitants . An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins survive war and famine, only to succumb to envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave, but finds the ancient trees refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a conman, a stalking panther, a lusty as each one confronts the mysteries of the north woods, they come to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.
Traversing cycles of history, nature, and even literature, North Woods shows the myriad, magical ways in which we’re connected to our environment and to one another, across time, language and space. Written along with the seasons and divided into the twelve months of the year, it is an unforgettable novel about secrets and fates that asks the timeless how do we live on, even after we’re gone?
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and
The Piano Tuner comes a collection of interlacing tales of men and
women as they face the mysteries and magic of the world.
On a fated flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life
forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the
middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is
possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in
Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most
fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her
ailing son.
At times funny and irreverent, always moving, these stories cap a
fifteen-year project that has won both a National Magazine Award and
Pushcart Prize. From the Nile’s depths to the highest reaches of the
atmosphere, from volcano-wracked islands to an asylum on the outskirts
of Rio de Janeiro, these are lives of ecstasy and epiphany.
'Engrossing . . . the reader falls under the spell that the author
is weaving, surrendering to the story's exotic magic.' - The Times
White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is
white when the story begins. One misty London afternoon in 1886,
piano tuner Edgar Drake receives an unusual request from the War
Office: he must leave his quiet life and travel to the jungles of
Burma to repair a rare grand piano owned by an enigmatic army
surgeon. So begins an extraordinary journey across Europe, the Red
Sea, India and onwards, accompanied by an enchanting yet elusive
woman. Edgar is at first captivated, then unnerved, as he begins to
question the true motive behind his summons and whether he will
return home unchanged to the wife who awaits him. . . An instant
bestseller, Daniel Mason's The Piano Tuner has been published in
twenty-seven countries. Exquisitely told, this classic is a richly
sensuous story of adventure, discovery, and how we confront our
most deeply held fears and desires.
'Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel' - Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See.
From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World War.
Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, only to find himself posted to a remote field-hospital ravaged by typhus. Supplies have all but run out, the other doctors have fled, and only a single nurse remains, from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine.
Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the course of his life.
From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front, The Winter Soldier is the story of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and of the mistakes we make and the precious opportunities to atone.
Through a Woman's Eye presents an evocative collection of a hundred
black and white photographs made by Edith Morgan of Camden, a small
town in Wilcox County, Alabama, just after the turn of the
twentieth century. Morgan was educated locally before attending the
School of the Chicago Art Institute. Subsequently, she returned to
Camden where she spent the remainder of her life teaching art. She
also taught illiterate blacks and whites to read. Thirty years ago,
Marian Furman, also of Camden and herself a professional
photographer, discovered an album made by Morgan of photographs of
her friends, students, and local African Americans. The latter,
although somewhat stereotypical of photographs of blacks at the
time, are sympathetic; they reveal the humanity of Morgan's
subjects. This volume collects Morgan's photographs, along with
essays that put them in the context of time and place. Professor
Hardy Jackson's essay presents a personal memory. Furman describes
socio-economic and political conditions in Wilcox County and offers
biographical information on the Morgan family. Dr. Matthew Mason of
Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library presents
additional biographical information and offers a critical
assessment of Morgan's photographs, comparing her work to that of
contemporary photographers, especially her female peers.
When they spoke of it in town, they called it simply the city, as
if it was the only city in the world . . . Raised in a remote
village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, Isabel was born with
the gift and curse of 'seeing farther'. When drought and war grip
their land, her beloved brother Isaias joins a great exodus to a
teeming, labyrinthine city in the south. Soon the fourteen-year-old
Isabel follows, forsaking the only home she's ever known, her sole
consolation the thought of being with her brother again. But when
she arrives, she discovers that Isaias has disappeared. Weeks and
then months pass, until one day, armed only with her unshakeable
hope, Isabel descends into the chaos of the city to find him. Told
with extraordinary empathy, richly evocative, the story of Isabel's
quest - of her dignity and determination, her deeply spiritual
world - becomes a universal tale about the bonds of family and a
sister's love for her brother, about being caught between two
worlds, and about true heroism. A tour de force of emotional and
narrative power, it is destined to become a classic. 'Mason is a
superb storyteller. He inhabits Isabel's mind with fine
sensitivity, and cleverly uses his imaginary setting to write of
dauntless, timeless love and loyalty' The Times
From the bestselling author of "The Piano Tuner," a stunning novel
about a young girl's journey through a vast, unnamed country in
search of her brother.
Fourteen-year-old Isabel was born in a remote village with the gift
and curse of "seeing farther." When drought and war grip the
backlands, her brother Isaias joins a great exodus to a teeming
city in the south. Soon Isabel must follow, forsaking the only home
she's ever known, her sole consolation the thought of being with
her brother again.
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