THE STONE CARVERS
Jane Urquhart
Viking
Fiction
ISBN: 0670030449
In THE STONE CARVERS, author Jane Urquhart weaves a masterfully constructed tale of love and war, passion and loss, spanning generations and sweeping the reader from the wilds of 19th century Canada to the post World War I battlefields of Vimy, France, where a colossal monument is being raised to honor those Canadians who fought and died in one of the most decisive battles in the war. It is at this monument that a brother and sister, recently reunited after a nearly a lifetime of estrangement, will work side by side, hoping to put their troubled pasts behind them.
Klara Becker is a 38-year-old spinster, living alone on her family's small farm in the German-settled town of Shoneval in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Over the years, Klara has come to accept and even savor the life of spinsterhood, filling up her days with tailoring, caring for her small herd of beloved snow-white cattle, and researching and recording the colorful history of Shoneval. But Klara has two things most spinsters do not - independence and a past. Independence because she has no family to speak of - no sick aunts to care for, no nieces or nephews to look after - and very deep within her heart, she holds faint memories of romance. Memories of a young man she loved and lost to the war - their brief affair lasting only a season but leaving a permanent impression on Klara that will guide her future in ways she could never imagine. | |
|
