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Author:
Robertson, Claire (Journalist), author.
Title:
Isle / Claire Robertson.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
Umuzian imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
261 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
2000-2099
South African fiction (English)--21st century.
South African fiction (English)
Novels.
Novels.
Summary:
"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.
ISBN:
1415210640
9781415210642
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1261751875
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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