White Elephant
- Publisher
- Freehand Books
- Initial publish date
- May 2016
- Subjects
- Literary
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A Simple book with some images and list items which are defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for cover image and logos, table of content, page-list, landmark, reading order, Structural Navigation, and semantic structure. Blank pages have been removed from this EPUB.
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781460405826
- Publish Date
- May 2016
- List Price
- $10.99
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Description
Physician Richard Berringer, his wife, Ann, and their thirteen-year-old son, Torquil, have abandoned their home in Nova Scotia and moved to Sierra Leone, despite warnings that the West African country is in a civil war. Two months on, things are not going well. Tensions are rising between Richard and his boss; Torquil—who hates Sierra Leone almost as much as he hates his father—has launched a hunger strike; and Ann is bedridden with illnesses that Richard believes are all in her head. While the Berringers battle with themselves, each other and the worlds they inhabit, the narrative repeatedly returns to their past, shedding light on what brought them together, what keeps them together, why they have come to Africa, and why they might not be able to go home again.
About the author
Catherine Cooper is a Nova Scotian writer with a Masters degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from Concordia University. Her fiction and non-fiction has been published most recently in Brick Magazine and Guernica Magazine. Her first book, The Western Home: Stories for Home on the Range, is a collection of short stories was published by Pedlar Press in 2014. White Elephant is her first novel. She lives in Prague, Czech Republic.
Awards
- Short-listed, Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- Short-listed, Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- Short-listed, Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- Short-listed, Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- Short-listed, Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- Short-listed, Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- Short-listed, Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- Short-listed, Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- Short-listed, Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- Short-listed, Amazon.ca First Novel Award
Editorial Reviews
“[S]o deftly executed that it’s impossible to turn away.”