EAN: 9781984822017

GREENWOOD - MICHAEL CHRISTIE KARTONIERT (TB)

A magnificent generational saga that charts a family s rise and fall  its secrets and inherited
crimes  from one of Canada s most acclaimed novelists Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller
Prize A rugged  riveting novel . . . This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard
Powers s The Overstory. Publishers Weekly (starred review) There are plenty of visionary
moments laced into [Christie s] shape-shifting narrative. . . . Greenwood penetrates to the
core of things. The New York Times Book Review It s 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a
storyteller and a liar  an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one
of the world s last remaining forests. It s 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter  sprawled on
his back after a workplace fall  calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It s
1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail  free after being locked up for one of her endless
series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father s once vast
and violent timber empire. It s 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone  as usual  in his
maple-syrup camp squat  when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in
the web of a crime  secrets  and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. And
throughout  there are trees: a steady  silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie s effortless
sentences  working as a guiding metaphor for withering  weathering  and survival. A shining 
intricate clockwork of a novel  Greenwood is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story of the bonds
and breaking points of money and love  wood  and blood and the hopeful  impossible task of
growing toward the light.

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