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In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum McDonald set sail from the Scottish highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey, Calum settles his family in "the land of the trees" until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan, with its own identity and history.
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Alistair MacLeod was born in 1936 and raised in Cape Breton, Nove Scotia. MacLeod is the author of two short story collections, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories (1986) and the novel, No Great Mischief, published in 1999. Written over the course of thirteen years, No Great Mischief won numerous Canadian literary awards and the 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. All of his published short stories, plus one new piece, were collected in Island, published in 2000. Alistair MacLeod died in 2014.
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"You will find scenes from this majestic novel burned into your mind forever" -- Alice Munro "One of the great undiscovered writers of our time" -- Michael Ondaatje "The novel is close to being a masterpiece. The characters, the light and the weather, the story itself - its beautiful tone and shape, its harsh and melancholy music - stay with you for days afterwards. The novel is simply breathtaking in its emotional range" -- Colm Toibin * Irish Times * "Exceptional... The book is pervaded by the humour and colour; intensely vivid, and very, very moving" * Independent * "Alistair MacLeod is a wonderfully talented writer" -- Margaret Atwood
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- PublisherRandom House of Canada, Limited
- Publication date2006
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- ISBN 13 9780099283928
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