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The Limestone Road
Nicole Alexander
出版
Penguin Random House Australia
, 2025-03-04
主題
Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War II
Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II
Fiction / Small Town & Rural
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / War & Military
ISBN
1760898279
9781760898274
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=flgwEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In the summer of 1944 returning soldiers Canning Christie and his father Michael arrive in South Australia from the desert sands of North Africa.
Canning carries the trauma of war and a fractured memory of a terrible event, while charismatic Michael resumes his womanising ways, intent on concealing his own secret wound.
Inexplicably drawn to a vineyard on their land, Canning dreams of producing his own wine. And a chance meeting with Grace Huntley, daughter of the local landowner, offers him hope for that future.
But dormant memories keep rising up: his childhood with his mother, the years traversing the interior with his father and his time at the front.
Soon, viniculture becomes an obsession - one he suspects lies in a hazy recollection of a night in battle. To move forward Canning must reconcile the past, even if that means working with Italian POWs and accepting help from an immigrant German . . .
. . . And ultimately taking a stand against his own father, whose increasingly reckless behaviour is threatening to destroy their new life.
'Bears all the hallmarks of a modern Australian classic.'
Christine Wells, author of
Sisters of the Resistance
'Stirring and authentic. Heartbreaking and uplifting.'
Tania Blanchard, author of
An Undeniable Voice
'Nicole Alexander's exquisite prose made this book a joy to read.'
Lauren Chater, author of
The Beauties
