2010 Giller Prize (longlist)
From The Giller Prize-shortlisted author of The Projectionist and In the Place of Last Things comes a novel of profound moral tension and a menacing drama that follows the repercussions of a single act of violence in the lives of several characters.
An attack by an unknown assailant leaves Kim Lystrander at the mercy of her fear. As Kim re-imagines in writing the hours and days leading up to the assault, her father, Harold, begins to unravel. The attack returns Harold, an historian of Latin America living in Toronto, to the darkest secret of his past, from the time of the coup in Santiago, Chile, on September 11, 1973. Caught up in their crisis are a young Colombian man, living illegally in the world's most diverse city, and the woman who harbours him out of a belief in the duty to give asylum to any who seek it, whatever their history, a woman Harold is powerfully drawn to. Michael Helm offers us a compelling and complex human drama, where mysteries live within mysteries, stories within stories.
Genre: Literary Fiction
An attack by an unknown assailant leaves Kim Lystrander at the mercy of her fear. As Kim re-imagines in writing the hours and days leading up to the assault, her father, Harold, begins to unravel. The attack returns Harold, an historian of Latin America living in Toronto, to the darkest secret of his past, from the time of the coup in Santiago, Chile, on September 11, 1973. Caught up in their crisis are a young Colombian man, living illegally in the world's most diverse city, and the woman who harbours him out of a belief in the duty to give asylum to any who seek it, whatever their history, a woman Harold is powerfully drawn to. Michael Helm offers us a compelling and complex human drama, where mysteries live within mysteries, stories within stories.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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