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I felt always that the crumbling paper must hold something that was more like speaking flesh and blood . . . that somewhere amid these shreds . . . I would learn something of this family lost to silence; something about a house that was quickly abandoned and a family divided, and then all gates shut on the past.
From the blood-soaked streets of 1870s Paris to the student riots of the 1960s—a magnificent epic novel of revolution, obsession, and buried secrets
A young Australian man arrives in riot-ravaged Paris, armed with an old manuscript written in French and an obsessive desire to piece together the fragments of a mystery that has haunted him since childhood. His journey takes him back and forth in time, over the ruins of desert and city, and through the veils and mirages of history and memory. From Paris to the desolate, windswept Australian desert to the appalling dank prisons of 19th-century New Caledonia, this is an epic story of a search for truth, spanning continents and generations.
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Michael Meehan is the award-winning author of The Salt of Broken Tears and Stormy Weather.
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Australian law student Nicholas Lethbridge arrives in riot-ravaged 1968 Paris with an old manuscript in his hand and an obsessive desire to piece together a childhood mystery. Nicholas’ great-grandfather, Paul Duvernois, was a French activist banished to Australia after the 1871 Paris commune. Communard Duvernois stayed to raise a family on a drought-stricken farm appropriately named Deception after the local mountain. Nicholas’ quest is to uncover what happened at Deception to cause his family to abandon the farm and each other, scattering to the far corners of the globe. Nicholas has a few tools to guide him: the names and local addresses of three great-aunts, one who was raised at Deception. Nicholas also meets Julia Dussol, a researcher studying the manuscripts of fellow communard Sebastian Rouvel. Nicholas also befriends Lucien, a local history expert and vagabond whose hygiene habits have gotten him kicked out of every local library. While the prose has a tendency to be overpowering, Meehan’s story is gripping. As the novel moves toward its surprising conclusion, Meehan creates a thought-provoking and satisfying exploration of the meeting of history and memory. --Carol Gladstein
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