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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781482992274
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ISBN: 9781482992267
Runtime: | 7.07 Hours |
Category: | Fiction/Literary |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Winner of the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger
Shortlisted for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize
An Amazon Best Book of the Month
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A wondrous and redemptive debut novel, set in a stark world where evil and magic coincide, The Enchanted combines the empathy and lyricism of Alice Sebold with the dark, imaginative power of Stephen King.
"This is an enchanted place. Others don’t see it, but I do." The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him, weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes and the world he inhabits. Fearful and reclusive, he senses what others cannot. Though bars confine him every minute of every day, he marries visions of golden horses running beneath the prison, heat flowing like molten metal from their backs with the devastating violence of prison life.
Two outsiders venture here: a fallen priest and the Lady, an investigator who searches for buried information from prisoners’ pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, honesty and corruption—ultimately revealing shocking secrets of her own.
Beautiful and transcendent, The Enchanted reminds us of how our humanity connects us all, and how beauty and love exist even amidst the most nightmarish reality.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Details
Details
Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
Category: | Fiction/Literary |
Runtime: | 7.07 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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