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The Wake of Forgiveness

✍ Scribed by Machart, Bruce

Book ID
110493691
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Tongue
English
Weight
384 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780151014439

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✦ Synopsis

"A mesmerizing, mythic saga" of a Texas family damaged by a dark past, and a son driven by a need for redemption (The New York Times Book Review).

On a moonless Texas night in 1895, an ambitious young landowner suffers the loss of his wifeβ€”"the only woman he's ever been fond of"β€”when she dies giving birth to their fourth son, Karel. The boy is forever haunted by thoughts of the mother he never knew and the bloodshot blame in his father's eyes, and is permanently marked by the yoke he and his brothers are forced to wear to plow the family fields.

But from an early age, Karel proves remarkably talented on horseback, and his father enlists him to ride in horseraces against his neighbors, with acreage as the prize. Now, Karel prepares for a high-stakes race against a powerful Spanish patriarch and his alluring daughtersβ€”and hanging in the balance are his father's fortune, his brothers' futures, and his own fateβ€”in...

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