Fault Lines

Fault Lines

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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2008. Reminiscent of Nicole Krauss's The History of Love in its scale and passion, Fault Lines tells the story of one family through four generations, and the scars that mark their shared history. Winner of the Prix Femina 2006.

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Fault Lines by Nancy Huston

Sol is a highly gifted six-year-old; his adoring mother believes he is destined for greatness. Yet he is also unsettling, chillingly un-childlike. He bears the same birthmark as his father, grandmother and great-grandmother had before him. When Sol and his family make an unexpected trip to Germany, terrible secrets start to emerge. Narrated by children in each generation of the family, Fault Lines traces their history back through the years, from California to New York, from Haifa to Toronto and Munich. As dormant family secrets are awakened, shock waves reverberate from a hidden past into a fragile present. Domestic in focus and epic in scope, Fault Lines is a vibrant, richly drawn and captivating piece of storytelling. It shows what can happen when past and present collide. Birthmarks are not all that can be passed down through a family line...
'Nancy Huston is a brilliant, lyrical, unforgettable writer' Janette Turner Hospital 'Explosive in its control and its ambition.' Le Figaro
Nancy Huston was born in Calgary in 1953 and studied in New England and New York. At the age of twenty, she moved to Paris where she lives to this day. A prolific writer in both French and English, she translates her work herself. Fault Lines is her eleventh novel.
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ISBN 13 9781843547563
ISBN 10 1843547562
Title Fault Lines
Author Nancy Huston
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Atlantic Books
Year published 2008-03-01
Number of pages 320
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