Glorious Boy

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Beschreibung

<p>"A riveting amalgam of history, family epic, anticolonial/antiwar treatise, cultural crossroads, and more, this latest from best-selling author Liu (Face) is a fascinating, irresistible marvel."<strong>—Terry Hong, STARRED <em>Library Journal</em> review</strong></p><p>"Liu's prose is masterful. A good choice for book groups and for readers who are unafraid to be swept away."—<strong>Starred Booklist Review</strong></p><p>"With a mesmerizing setting and transporting detail, Glorious Boy balances tropical beauty with raw, physical risk, and dives deep into grim truths about parental love and the power and limitation of language. This is a page-turner, sometimes violent but always revelatory. Readers won’t easily forget the trials this young couple faces, or the landscape that changes them all."—<strong>Five Star Review from <em>The Seattle Review of Books</em></strong></p><p><strong><strong>On a remote island in British India, a mute four-year-old and the local girl who cares for him disappear on the eve of Japanese occupation, forcing the boy’s parents, a young anthropologist and her physician husband, to take drastic measures to save the children.</strong></strong></p><p><em>What will it take to save Ty?</em> This is the question that haunts Claire and Shep Durant in the wake of their four-year-old’s disappearance. Until this moment, Port Blair’s British surgeon and his young wife, a promising anthropologist, have led a charmed life in the colonial backwaters of India’s Andaman Islands—thanks in part to Naila, a local girl who shares their mysteriously mute son’s silent language. But with the war closing in and mandatory evacuation underway, the Durants don’t realize until too late that Naila and Ty have vanished. While Claire sails for Calcutta, Shep stays to search for the children. Days later, the Japanese invade the Andamans, cutting off all communication. Fueled by guilt and anguish, Claire uses her unique knowledge of the islands’ tribes to make herself in

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781597098892

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

221 x 155 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Red Hen Press