EAN: 9780349727806

NIGHT WATCH - JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS KARTONIERT (TB)

'Breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES'Shatteringly particular and
audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL 'Gorgeous prose  attention to detail and masterful
characters. Haunting storytelling and a refreshing look at history' KIRKUS  STARRED REVIEWFrom
one of our most accomplished novelists  a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking
refuge in a mental asylum in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. In 1874  in the wake of
the war  trauma haunts civilians and veterans  renegades and wanderers  freedmen and runaways.
Twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother  Eliza  who hasn't spoken in more than a year  arrive at
the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia  delivered to the hospital's entrance by a
war veteran who has forced himself into their lives. There  far from family  a beloved
neighbour  and the mountain home they knew  they try to reclaim their lives. The twin horrors
of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their history: their flight to the highest
mountain ridges of western Virginia  the disappearance of ConaLee's father  who left for the
war and never returned. Meanwhile in the asylum  they begin to find a new path. ConaLee
pretends to be her mother's maid  Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the
life of the facility - the mystery behind the man they call the Night Watch  the child called
Weed  the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen  the remarkable doctor at the head of the
institution. Epic  enthralling and meticulously crafted  Night Watch is a brilliant portrait of
family endurance against all odds and a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.

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