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The Wreckage

✍ Scribed by Michael Crummey

Publisher: Doubleday Canada;Anchor Canada
Year: 2005;2009
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 191 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0307373290

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✦ Synopsis

Having achieved considerable success with his first novel, River Thieves , Michael Crummey has written a book that is equally stunning and compelling. The Wreckage __ is a truly epic, yet twisted, romance that unfolds over decades and continents. It engages readers on the austere shores of Newfoundland's fishing villages and drags them across to Japanese POW camps during some of the worst events of the Second World War. Haunting, lyrical, and deeply intimate, Crummey's language fully exposes his characters' vulnerabilities as they struggle to come to terms with their guilt and regret over decisions made during their impulsive youths.

It is a testament to Crummey's gifts as a novelist that he can flow quite easily through time, across landscapes, and between vastly different characters. He vividly captures the mental and physical anguish experienced in prison camps, and with calm lucidity explores the motives of a Japanese soldier whose actions seem...

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