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Title: A COVENANT OF SALT
By: Martine Desjardins, Fred A. Reed (Trans), David Homel (Trans)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0889225664
ISBN 13: 9780889225664
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Publisher: TALON BOOKS,CANADA
Pub. date: 1 September, 2007
Pages: 160
Description: This novel explores the snares of individual and collective memory as they are used to justify and preserve ancestral grudges.
Synopsis: Since the death of her parents in 1791, Lily McEvoy has lived as a recluse in her isolated Armagh County manor with her two maidservants and Titus, the farmhand who has become her whipping boy. But tonight, the heiress is expecting company. Her guest is Master Anselm, the legendary stone cutter who has transformed the estate's abandoned salt mine into an immense funerary monument to the memory of the McEvoy family, sculpting bas-reliefs in the chapels, crypts and tombs he has carved out of the rock salt of its cavernous walls.Lily is sniffing powdered salt in the attic as she summons the shadow of her father, the cruel Irish Rear Admiral Magnus McEvoy, hero of the capture of Quebec and absolute master of his estate, and of her mother, the mysterious Laurence, she of the webbed feet who emerged from the river of a stormy night.But the same salt that has preserved Lily's memories is desiccating her. Her obsession with the past now risks transforming her, like Lot's wife, into a pillar of salt? crystallized by the family's abominable secrets. These secrets, and the instrument of her revenge, she will today finally reveal to Anselm over their precipitous evening meal.Drawing from the history of the conquest of Quebec and Irish legend, this is an exotic new way to tell a very old story.
Publication: Canada
Imprint: Talon Books,Canada
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