β Scribed by Karl Marlantes
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Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, 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 that is no less rich and honest in its depiction of human suffering, courage, and reinvention.
Born into a farm family in late nineteenth-century Finland, the three Koski siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and Aino--are brought up on the virtue of maintaining their sisu in the face of increasing hardship, especially after their nationalist father is arrested by imperial Russian authorities, never to be seen again. Lured by the prospects of the Homestead Act, Ilmari and Matti set sail for America, and the politicized young Aino, haunted by the specter of betrayal after her Marxist cell is disastrously exposed,...
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Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn, a _New York Times_ Notable Book and winner of the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, 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-
Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn, a *New York Times* Notable Book and winner of the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, *Deep River*, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytellingβthe family epicβto
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