"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later."

When fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold that can never be uncrossed.

His parents' arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening and uncertain future for Dell and his twin sister, Berner. Willful and burning with resentment, Berner flees their home in Montana, abandoning her brother and her life. But Dell is not completely alone. A family friend intervenes, spiriting him across the Canadian border, in hopes of delivering him to a better life. There, afloat on the prairie of Saskatchewan, Dell is taken in by Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic and charismatic American whose cool reserve masks a dark and violent nature.

Undone by the calamity of his parents' robbery and arrest, Dell struggles under the vast prairie sky to remake himself and define the adults he thought he knew. But his search for grace and peace only moves him nearer to a harrowing and murderous collision with Remlinger, an elemental force of darkness.

A true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from one of America's greatest writers, Canada is a profound novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost and reconciled, and the mysterious and consoling bonds of family. Told in spare, elegant prose, both resonant and luminous, it is destined to become a classic.

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Thank you very much for "Canada", alexotanil! Sounds like an interesting book to read!

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I really liked the book, although it took me a while to finish it.

The book is travelling to Forti as a consolation for her team (South Korea) to Mexico in the football worldcup.


Enjoy!

Thanks for the book and the cute bookmark :-)

This book was recommended by critics some time ago and therefore found its way to my wishlist. I prefer reading in German (as it is much easier for me), but when this book was offered to me in the original language I didn't say no and gave it a try. I mention that because I wonder, if I read (and rated) this book differently, if I read it in my native language.

The story of teenager Dell who is sent to Canada after his parents rob a bank is told very very slowly. Dell describes a lot of details. I admit I'm not a big fan of this style. But I guess in this case the style was well intended by the author - style before story. I tried to acknowledge that but it was hard.

It was OK to read it as a non-regular non-native reader although I think I didn't get much of the praised "pure vocal grace".

Hi! I hope you enjoyed the convention and your time in Mainz! Now have fun reading this novel 💛

This one's coming home with meeeee!