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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Horror & ghost stories, Myth & legend told as fiction, Indigenous peoples
A kinetic, imaginative, and sensuous gothic novel inspired by traditional Canadian Metis legends.
A NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
'Deftly written and gripping: a rip-roaring read!'
Margaret Atwood
'Tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive'
Tommy Orange
'An utterly compelling blend of propulsive narrative, starkly beautiful writing and passionate, near dysfunctional love'
Daily Mail
'Haunting and resonant'
New York Times
Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for almost a year - ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument.
One hung-over morning she is drawn to a revival tent in a nearby town - and there is Victor. Only he insists he is not Victor, but the Reverend Eugene Wolff, on a mission to bring his people to Jesus.
With only two allies - her Johnny-Cash-loving, 12-year-old nephew Zeus, and Ajean, a foul-mouthed euchre shark with deep knowledge of the old Metis ways - Joan sets out to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he really is. If he really is Victor, his life and the life of everyone she loves, depends upon her success.
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Praise for Empire of Wild
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A blend of close-knit emotional bonds and ambiguous menace... Dimaline's novel is able to take the plot to some unexpectedly phantasmagorical places without losing sight of its emotional core... Dimaline here turns an old story into something newly haunting and resonant. - New York Times Review of Books
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Empire of Wild is a small book. But it is not a slight book. It is close, tight, stark, beautiful - rich where richness is warranted, but spare where want and sorrow have sharpened every word. - NPR
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