The certainties / Aislinn Hunter.
In 1940, as the shadow of war lengthens over Europe, three mysterious travelers enter a village in Spain. They have the appearance of Parisian intellectuals, but the trio of two men and a woman are starving and exhausted from crossing illegally through the Pyrenees. Their story, told over a period of 48 tense hours, is narrated by one of the men, who slowly accepts his unthinkable fate. In a voice despairing and elegant, he calmly considers what he should do, and weighs what any one life means. As he does so, his attention is caught by a five-year-old named Pia who wanders near his cafe table. To Pia he begins to address all that he thinks and feels in his final hours - envisioning a rich future life for her that both reflects and contrasts with his own. Meanwhile, in the 1980s, a woman named Pia seeks solitude on a remote island in the Atlantic, where she works at an inn and reflects on her chaotic childhood. As Pia's story begins, a raging storm engulfs the island and a boat flounders offshore. Pia and her fellow islanders rush to help - and past and present calamities collide.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735276871
- Physical Description: 235 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020.
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Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction. Refugees > Fiction. Pyrenees > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Topic Heading: | Festival of the Written Arts 2021 > Sechelt (B.C.) |
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