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On Canaan's Side

Sebastian Barry

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#943 of 8,085 books · #166 in Historical Fiction

Won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2012). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Sligo, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly's narrative unfurls as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, it is a novel of memory, war, family-ties and love.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571274703
Topics
Memory and griefEmigration and exileWar's impact on family

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