Deep river : a novel / Karl Marlantes.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802148971 (paperback)
- ISBN: 0802148972 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 724 pages : maps ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- Perseus Publishing
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War, a rich family saga about Finnish immigrants who settle and tame the Pacific Northwest, set against the early labor movements, World War I, and the upheaval of early twentieth-century America - Perseus Publishing
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War, a rich family saga about Finnish immigrants who settle and tame the Pacific Northwest, set against the early labor movements, World War I, and the upheaval of early twentieth-century America
Karl Marlantesâs debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytellingâthe family epicâto craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention.
In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russiaâs imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblingsâIlmari, Matti, and the politicized young Ainoâare forced to flee to the United States. Not far from the majestic Columbia River, the siblings settle among other Finns in a logging community in southern Washington, where the first harvesting of the colossal old-growth forests begets rapid development, and radical labor movements begin to catch fire. The brothers face the excitement and danger of pioneering this frontier wildernessâclimbing and felling trees one-hundred meters highâwhile Aino, foremost of the books many strong, independent women, devotes herself to organizing the industryâs first unions. As the Koski siblings strive to rebuild lives and families in an America in flux, they also try to hold fast to the traditions of a home they left behind.
Layered with fascinating historical detail, this is a novel that breathes deeply of the sun-dappled forest and bears witness to the stump-ridden fields the loggers, and the first waves of modernity, leave behind. At its heart, Deep River is an ambitious and timely exploration of the place of the individual, and of the immigrant, in an America still in the process of defining its own identity.