Akin : a novel / Emma Donoghue.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443458948
- Physical Description: 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Canadian edition.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
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Subject: | Nephews > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. France > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Canadian fiction |
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Radium Hot Springs Public Library | FIC DON (Text) | 35130000054548 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
100 Mile House Branch | DON (Text) | 33923006151140 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Beaver Valley Public Library | F DON (Text) | 35144000208103 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Bibliotheque St. Claude Library | FIC DON (Text) | 36725000177519 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Bibliothèque Pere Champagne Library | Fic Don (Text) | 366370000841812 | Fiction English | Volume hold | Available | - |
Boissevain-Morton Library | F/Donoghue (Text) | 36266000312152 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Bowen Island Public Library | F DON (Text) | 30947000587762 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Bren Del Win Centennial Library | F Donoghue (Text) | 36320000366435 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Broadway Library | PS 8557 O559 A35 2019 (Text) | 33109010361517 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
Castlegar Public Library | FIC DON (Text) | 35146002161180 | Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-14 |
- HARPERCOLL
In her first contemporary novel since Room, bestselling author Emma Donoghue returns with a brilliant tale of love, loss and family. The life of a retired New York professor is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera in the hopes of uncovering his own mother’s wartime secrets.
Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when he receives an unexpected request. A social worker is looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Although he has never met the boy, Noah is convinced to take Michael with him to France.
Suffering from jet lag and culture shock, the odd couple argue about everything from steak haché to screen time, and the trip shows every sign of being a disaster. But Michael’s skill with tech and his sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family’s past. Eventually they both come to understand that people of all eras run risks on behalf of their loved ones. In learning this they discover that they are more akin than they knew.Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room a huge bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy who unpick the threads of their painful stories and start to write a new one together.