The Punishing Journey of Arthur Delaney - A Novel

Bob Kroll

Casa editrice: ECW Press

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For readers of Paulette Jiles and Gil Adamson, a 19th-century tale of a father’s greatest regret and path to redemption
		 
Devastated at his wife’s death and stricken at raising two girls and a boy on his own, Arthur Delaney places his children in a Halifax orphanage and runs off to join the Union Army in the American Civil War. The trauma of battle and three years in a disease-ridden prisoner-of-war prison changes his perspective on life and family.
		 
After the war, Delaney odd-jobs his way up the American east coast and catches a schooner to Halifax. There he discovers the orphanage has relocated to a farm in rural Nova Scotia. His children are not there. They and others had been sold and resold as farm workers and house servants through the Maritime provinces, as well as Quebec and Ontario. Their whereabouts is unknown. Arthur Delaney sets out on a punishing 20-year journey across Canada to find them.
		 
This is a heartbreaking, beautifully told story of a father’s attempt to reconnect with his children

Disponibile da: 07/06/2022.

Lunghezza di stampa: 224 pagine.

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#bookoftheweek July 29th 2022.

A deeply moving historical novel, inspired by true events and brought to us by the Canadian writer Bob Kroll. After the death of his wife, Arthur Delaney puts his three children in a Halifax orphanage and joins the American Civil War. Three years later he returns home to find the orphanage relocated and his children missing. Pained by the loss, he is determined to make up for his past mistakes and embarks on a journey across Canada to reunite with his two daughters and his son.

Kroll’s narrative is sparse and straightforward, just like his characters. He switches between Arthur’s perspective and that of his children, who are being sold and resold as farm workers and house servants all over Canada. It will take Arthur twenty years to find them but he does not give up until he finds out what happened to his family. A story that will stay with you long after you have finished the last page.

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