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Fault Lines

by (author) Nancy Huston

Publisher
McArthur & Company
Initial publish date
Aug 2007
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552787304
    Publish Date
    Aug 2008
    List Price
    $16.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781552786642
    Publish Date
    Aug 2007
    List Price
    $29.95
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781489088062
    Publish Date
    Dec 2015
    List Price
    $18.99
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781743107812
    Publish Date
    May 2012
    List Price
    $36.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552789087
    Publish Date
    Aug 2010
    List Price
    $14.99

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Description

Sol is a gifted but also terrifying six year old; his mother believes he is destined for greatness. He has a birthmark, like his dad, his grandmother and great-grandmother. But when they all make an unexpected trip to Germany, terrible secrets emerge about their family’s story during World War II. Perhaps birthmarks are not all that has been passed down through this family.
With its domestic focus but epic scope, Fault Lines is a compelling, touching often funny novel about four generations of children and their parents. From California to New York, from Haifa to Toronto and Munich, the secrets unwind back through time, the present haunted by the past, until we reach the devastating truth. Nancy Huston tells a riveting, vigorous tale, in which love, music and faith rage against the shape of evil. You’ll find Fault Lines, with its powerfully drawn characters, hard to put down.
A bestseller in France, where it won the prestigious Prix Femina in 2006, Fault Lines is currently being translated into eighteen languages.

About the author

Nancy Huston’s books have won the Prix Goncourt des Lyceéns, the Prix Elle (Quebec) and the Governor General’s Award. Her novel, The Mark of the Angel, was an international bestseller, which won the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle, the Canadian Jewish Fiction Book Award, the Torgi Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Fault Lines won the Prix Femina in 2006. Nancy Huston lives in Paris with her husband, the writer Tzvetan Todorov, and their two children.

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