Kalila
Rosemary Nixon
Availability:
Ebook in EPUB format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Ebook in EPUB format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Publisher:
Goose Lane Editions
Goose Lane Editions
DRM:
Watermark
Watermark
Publication Year:
2011
2011
ISBN-13:
9780864926999
Description:
<p><b>Shortlisted, George Bugnet Award for Fiction</b></p><p><i>Kalila</i> chronicles the lives of Maggie and Brodie, whose joy collides with devastation when their daughter's birth also heralds the news of her congenital heart condition.In this startlingly inventive novel, Rosemary Nixon braids light and darkness into a narrative chain pulled exquisitely taut. Through Maggie and Brodie's shifting viewpoints, the isolating impenetrability of hospital life, the mediation of physics, music, and family, Nixon propels the reader into unmapped emotional terrain where a shell-shocked family grapples with the horror, joy, and mystery of impermanence. The result is a spellbinding tale, provocative for the emotions and the intellect. </p>