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02039aam a2200301Ii 4500 001 7B55666C8FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220217010136 008 210727s2021 sa 000 f eng d 020 $a 1415210640 020 $a 9781415210642 035 $a (OCoLC)1261751875 040 $a Z@L $b eng $e rda $c Z@L $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d X$@ $d STF $d OCLCO $d EEM $d OCLCO $d OCL $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9369.4.R637 $b I85 2021 100 1 $a Robertson, Claire $c (Journalist), $e author. 245 10 $a Isle / $c Claire Robertson. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Cape Town, South Africa : $b Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa, $c 2021. 300 $a 261 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "The year is 1289 and an injured young man washes up on an island of women. He is taken in by a sculptor who sees in him the perfect model for her Christ, although her real masterwork will be a larger-than-life Virgin. But the Church will come to reject this sisterhood of unmarried women on the island, and they are bound to lose their small freedoms. Centuries later, a lieutenant is sent to an island to dispose of unexploded ordnance. As an erstwhile World War ii flight nurse trained to evacuate wounded soldiers, she too has gazed upon, and been haunted by, the bodies of broken young men. For her, a fraught love affair with a local man will ignite, while his teenage daughter looks on. Binding the lives - so different and so similar - of women separated by time and place, Claire Robertson's Isle is an all-encompassing rumination on privacy, inhibition and female desire, rendered in her masterful prose"--Provided by Publisher. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a South African fiction (English) $y 21st century. 650 7 $a South African fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01127180 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031132.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7B55666C8FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search