"Engrossing and beautifully written.A work of lyrical naturalism dressed as an allegory." People Magazine (Book of the Week) "This is an extraordinary novel, emotionally precise, vivid in its portrayal of nature, and subtle in its exploration of the relationship between life and story." Hillary Kelly, Vulture "Michael Crummey's ravishing story is raw and intimate and will break your heart." The Innocents is a survivor narrative and a psychological thriller, a chilling study in isolation." "Imagine Into the Wild with prepubescents, told in the voice of a William Blake acolyte as verbally inventive as Tolkien.
*Finalist for the 2019 Giller Prize, 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards, & 2019 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize* By turns electrifying and heartbreaking, it is a testament to the bounty and barbarity of the world, to the wonders and strangeness of our individual selves. Richly imagined and compulsively readable, prizewinning author Michael Crummey's The Innocents is a riveting story of hardship and survival, and an unflinching exploration of the bond between brother and sister.
But as seasons pass and they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that loyalty will be tested. Still, they muddle through the severe round of the seasons, through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, their fierce loyalty to each other motivates and sustains them. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them alive. A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline.
About the Book "A novel about an orphaned brother and sister who must fend for themselves on a remote fishing outpost in the late 1800s"-īook Synopsis From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.
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