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#8051 of 8,085 books · #1077 in Historical Fiction

Longlisted for the Giller Prize (2008).

Set during the summer of the Ojibway occupation of Anicinabe Park in Kenora, The Retreat is a finely nuanced, deeply felt novel that tells the story of the complicated love between a white girl and a native boy, and of a family on the verge of splintering forever. It is also a story of the bond between two brothers who were separated in childhood, and whose lives and fates intertwine ten years later.

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Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
ISBN-13
9780771012532
Topics
Interracial loveFamily conflictIndigenous rights and identity

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