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(0)Peter Behrens
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
A devastating novel of war, love, and escape from the award-winning author of The Law of Dreams and The O’Briens
During childhood summers on the sunstruck Isle of Wight in the years before the First World War, Billy is entranced by Karin, the elusive daughter of a German-Jewish industrialist. Reunited on a Frankfurt estate in that war’s hungry aftermath, Karin and Billy become fascinated with tribal...
During childhood summers on the sunstruck Isle of Wight in the years before the First World War, Billy is entranced by Karin, the elusive daughter of a German-Jewish industrialist. Reunited on a Frankfurt estate in that war’s hungry aftermath, Karin and Billy become fascinated with tribal...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family saga spanning half a century in the lives of a restless and ambitious clan starts with the story of backwoods youth-turned-railroad magnate Joe O'Brien, who after leaving the Canadian wilds and sharing a passionate courtship with Iseult becomes the patriarch of a family that sees the first airplanes, two world wars and the election of JFK.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the deaths of his family during the mid-nineteenth-century Irish Potato Famine, Fergus O'Brien leaves Ireland in search of a new life, making his way to Liverpool, Wales, and finally across the Atlantic to Canada and the United States, in a historical novel based on the author's own family history.