The Stone Carvers Hardcover - 2002
by Jane Urquhart
When the world was still reeling from the staggering losses incurred in the First World War, an unknown Canadian sculptor was raising a colossal monument in France, where so many of his countrymen had fought and died. Unveiled in 1936, the Memorial at Vimy Ridge still stands as a stark reminder of the more than 11,000 Canadians who gave their lives in France-and as a testament to the vision and single-minded obsession of its now-forgotten architect, Walter Allward.
It is against the backdrop of this incredible achievement that Jane Urquhart sets her intricately woven new novel. At the center of the story is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of a master woodcarver, who spends her childhood in a German-settled community in southwestern Ontario in the years leading up to the war. It is a childhood punctuated by tremendous losses: her mother dies of cancer when she is a teenager; her older brother disappears; and her brief but passionate love affair with Eamon O'Sullivan is cut short when he is killed in action. But Klara's inherited gift for carving will reunite her with her brother and bring her unexpected happiness.
In the tradition of Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong and Pat Barker's Regeneration, The Stone Carvers is vintage Jane Urquhart writing at the height of her powers.
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- Title The Stone Carvers
- Author Jane Urquhart
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking Books, New York
- Date 2002-05-13
- ISBN 9780670030446 / 0670030449
- Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 8.66 x 5.96 x 1.23 in (22.00 x 15.14 x 3.12 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Brothers and sisters
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001056823
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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