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The Stone Carvers by Urquhart, Jane
- Bookseller: kbooks
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: XB6293V
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: As New in As New dust jacket
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0771086873
- ISBN 13: 9780771086878
- Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart
- Date published: 2001
- Pages: 392
Description
Mcclelland & Stewart. As New in As New dust jacket 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, first printing, 6" x 8 1/2", dust Jacket is not price clipped, as new with no wear. .. Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, The Stone Carvers weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centre of a large cast of characters is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of a master carver, a seamstress haunted by a love affair cut short by the First World War, and by the frequent disappearances of her brother Tilman, afflicted since childhood with wanderlust. From Ontario, they are swept into a colossal venture in Europe years later, as Toronto sculptor Walter Allward’s ambitious plans begin to take shape for a war memorial at Vimy, France. Spanning three decades, and moving from a German-settled village in Ontario to Europe after the Great War, The Stone Carvers follows the paths of immigrants, labourers, and dreamers. Vivid, dark, redemptive, this is novel of great beauty and power. ; 392 pages .
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Book summary
Klara is a seamstress in a small Ontario village, but when her older brother disappears and her lover dies in World War I, she travels to Paris and learns to carve stone like her grandfather did, so that she can participate in the carving of a war memorial.
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