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From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”—Wall Street Journal) a dark, enthralling novel about love and its limitations, the corruption of power and the power of corruption.In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into cha...

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From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Innocents, a dark, enthralling novel about love and its limitations, the corruption of power and the power of corruption.In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos.    That ruthless act of sabotage is the op...

In Hard Light, Michael Crummey retells and reinvents his father's stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half century ago. Speaking through generations of storytellers, he conjures a world of hard toil and heavy weather, shot through with stoicism, grim humour, endurance, and love. This is writing that is supple and charged with intensity, language that vivifies --- electrifies --- whoever and whatever it describes. "Mic...

The sixth and, on the surface, most peculiar poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey.

Der elfjährige Evered und seine zwei Jahre jüngere Schwester Ada wachsen unter kargen Bedingungen auf. Sie sind Kinder von Fischern, die um 1800 allein inmitten der kanadischen Wildnis leben.Als ihre Eltern sterben, sind die Geschwister auf sich gestellt, sie wissen nur das von der Welt, was sie von Mutter und Vater gelernt haben. Also führen sie deren hartes Leben nach Kräften weiter. Bis die Loyalität der Geschwister auf die Probe gestellt w...

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For twelve generations the inhabitants of a remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now, in the second decade of the 21st century, they are facing resettlement, and each has been offered a generous compensation package to leave. But the money is offered with a proviso: everyone has to go. But Moses Sweetland chooses to stay alone. Motivated in part by a sense of history and belonging, haunted by memories of the short and lo...

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.A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. 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 ...

Der elfjährige Evered und seine zwei Jahre jüngere Schwester Ada wachsen unter kargen Bedingungen auf. Sie sind die Kinder von Fischern, die allein inmitten der kanadischen Wildnis leben.Als ihre Eltern sterben, sind die Geschwister auf sich allein gestellt, sie wissen nur das von der Welt, was sie von Mutter und Vater gelernt haben. Also führen sie deren hartes Leben nach Kräften weiter. Bis die Loyalität der Geschwister auf die Probe gestell...

Vom Kampf eines Mannes gegen den Ausverkauf seiner Heimat Seit zwölf Generationen leben und sterben die Bewohner einer kleinen vor Neufundland liegenden Insel miteinander. Nun stehen sie plötzlich vor einer Umsiedlung. Jedem wurde ein großzügiges Entschädigungspaket angeboten. Doch das Geld wird erst gezahlt, wenn alle gehen. Der fast siebzigjährige Moses Sweetland weigert sich zunächst als Einziger, lässt sich dann zum Umzug überreden, nutzt...

A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Muddling through the severe round of the seasons, through years of meagre catches and storms andravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them. But as seasons pass and they wade de...

*FINALIST FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*FINALIST FOR THE 2019 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD*FINALIST FOR THE 2019 ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE*WINNER OF THE 2020 THOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY The Globe and Mail • CBC • Toronto Star • Maclean'sCrummey's novel has the capacity to change the way the reader sees the world. -Scotiabank Giller Prize Jury Citation Fr...

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In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between them is a murky business." In Most of What Follows Is True, Michael Crummey examines the complex relationship between fact and fiction, between the "real world" and the stories we tell to explain it. Drawing on his own experience appropriating historical characters to fictional ends, he brings forward ...

From the award-winning author of River Thieves comes a sweeping novel of love crossed by the blindness of faith and fate. In a remote Newfoundland outpost at the onset of the Second World War, the young Catholic Wish Furey meets the passionate, independent sixteen-year-old Protestant Sadie Parsons. They begin an intense affair that is cut short as prejudice and mistrust drive Wish away, into the British Army and the war. At home in Newfoundlan...

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