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Blood Fable
by Oisin Curran
€ 4.99 Save €20.00 (RRP €24.99)
ISBN: 9781771662949
Winner of the 2018 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.
Maine, 1980. A utopian community is on the verge of collapse. The charismatic leader's authority teeters as his followers come to realize they've been exploited for too long.
To make matters worse, the eleven-year-old son of one adherent learns that his mother has cancer. Taking refuge in his imagination, the boy begins to speak of another time and place. His parents believe he is remembering his own life before birth. This memory, a story within the story of BLOOD FABLE, is an epic tale about the search for a lost city refracted through the lens of the adventures the boy loves to read. But strangely, as the world around them falls apart, he and his parents find that his story seems to foretell the events unfolding in their present lives.
"A family drama, a fantastical voyage, and a poetic reflection on love, death and betrayal, this extraordinary coming-of-age novel exposes the difficult relationship between free-thought and blind faith, evasion and enlightenment.
Oisín Curran's BLOOD FABLE is an adventure for the heart and soul."--Johanna Skibsrud "
184 pages.
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Date of Publication: 03/10/2017
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