Visible Worlds

A Novel

by Marilyn Bowering

Twin boys growing up in Winnepeg during the Depression struggle to deal with their eccentric American father and their past-haunted German mother. One twin goes to Germany to study and becomes a dedicated Nazi, while his brother tries to come to terms with the conflicting strains of his life.

Editions of Visible Worlds

ISBN 9780060929268	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 1999	Price $1.00	Very Good
ISBN 9780002243773	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Harpercollins Canada	Date 1997	Price $1.00	Very Good-
ISBN 9780060191481	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 1998	Price $1.00	Very Good

Publisher Notes

Set in Canada, Germany, Korea, and the Soviet Union, Visible Worlds begins in 1960, with the death of Nate Bone on a Winnipeg football field, as his family and friends stand by and watch. The story then shifts to the tundra of Siberia, where, at the same time, a young woman identified only as Fika is trying to make her way from the Soviet Union to freedom. As the novel unfolds, these two seemingly unrelated events - literally worlds apart - become key pieces in Bowering's astonishing fictional puzzle. That puzzle is assembled by Albrecht Storr, one of twin sons of German immigrants, who becomes the primary narrator of the novel. Looking back to 1935, when he, his brother Gerhard, and Nate were children together, Albrecht slowly recounts a chain of extraordinary events set off when Nate, still suffering from the death of his sister, kidnaps an infant girl. That reckless, long undetected act leaves few lives unaffected, and will lead, a quarter of a century later, to Fika's remarkable journey across the spare, life-threatening, yet inconceivably beautiful frozen landscape.

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