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edition:Hardcover
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category: Fiction
published: Sep 2011
ISBN:9781770860445
publisher: Cormorant Books

Come from Afar

A Novel

by Gayla Reid

tagged: war & military, literary, historical
Description

In England in the spring of 1939, Clancy, an Australian nurse, waits with her infant daughter for news of her lover, who was a volunteer with the Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.

 

As she waits, Clancy shares with her daughter the story of her own childhood in the Australian bush and her disastrous marriage to an English archaeologist. When the Spanish Civil War erupted, Clancy volunteered on the Republican side. Her chance for happiness amid the chaos came when she met the young Canadian, Douglas Ross. She has not heard from him since the final desperate offensive.

 

The fourth work of fiction by the award-winning Australian-Canadian writer Gayla Reid, Come from Afar is a sweeping historical story of personal and political struggle.

About the Author

Gayla Reid grew up in New South Wales, Australia. She came to Canada in 1967, to study at the University of British Columbia, and has lived in Vancouver ever since. Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 1995, she was nominated again in 2001 and 2002 respectively. In 2005 she was the winner of the Marian Engel Award, which is presented to a female Canadian novelist in recognition of the entire body of her work.

Editorial Reviews

“Elegantly written and memorably stored away in my mind. I will count the days until her next novel.”

— The Sun-Times

“Reid brings to the page the passion of Clancy’s times, blending the horrors of war with a kind of lyrical beauty … the Spanish Civil War setting is fascinating and complex.”

— Quill and Quire

“The fragmented, non-linear structure of the book … one of Reid’s strengths. It comes to productively represent the fragmented nature of war, Cox’s conflicted relationships and state of mind, and, most powerfully, the way that her daughter struggles to narrate and fill in the blanks of her mother’s story.”

— Canadian Literature

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