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Hunter, Aislinn, 1969-
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Pyrenees -- Fiction.
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Hunter, Aislinn, 1969-
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Pyrenees -- Fiction.
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The certainties / Aislinn Hunter.
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Hunter, Aislinn, 1969-
Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION HUN
Subjects
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Pyrenees -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780735276871 (hc.)
Description:
235 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
In 1940, as the shadow of war lengthens over Europe, three mysterious travelers enter a village in Spain. They have the appearance of Parisian intellectuals, but the trio of two men and a woman are starving and exhausted from crossing illegally through the Pyrenees. Their story, told over a period of 48 tense hours, is narrated by one of the men, who slowly accepts his unthinkable fate. In a voice despairing and elegant, he calmly considers what he should do, and weighs what any one life means. As he does so, his attention is caught by a five-year-old named Pia who wanders near his cafe table. To Pia he begins to address all that he thinks and feels in his final hours--envisioning a rich future life for her that both reflects and contrasts with his own. Meanwhile, in the 1980s, a woman named Pia seeks solitude on a remote island in the Atlantic, where she works at an inn and reflects on her chaotic childhood. As Pia's story begins, a raging storm engulfs the island and a boat flounders offshore. Pia and her fellow islanders rush to help--and past and present calamities collide.
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Historical fiction.
Canadian fiction.
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