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Greenwood

Auteur(s): Michael Christie
Narrateur(s): Raven Dauda, David Ferry, Christo Graham, Amy Matysio
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Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award
Longlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize

A CBC Books "Best Canadian Fiction" Title of the Year

National Best Seller

From the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. Cloud Atlas meets The Overstory in this ingenious nested-ring epic set against the devastation of the natural world.

They come for the trees.

It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich-eco-tourists in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall and facing the possibility of his own death. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is just out of jail for one of her environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and rapacious timber empire.

It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is a Depression-era drifter who saves an abandoned infant, only to find himself tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: a steady, silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie's effortless sentences, working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival.

Transporting, beautifully written, and brilliantly structured like the nested growth rings of a tree, Greenwood reveals the knot of lies, omissions, and half-truths that exists at the root of every family's origin story. It is a magnificent novel of greed, sacrifice, love, and the ties that bind - and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.

©2019 Michael Christie (P)2019 McClelland & Stewart
Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Sincère

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2019, Scotiabank Giller Prize, Long-listed

"Astonishing. . . . What makes Greenwood an essential climate-change novel is that, rather than obsessing over a single, final apocalypse to come, it attempts something much harder and more ambitious: to transcend altogether the tropes of victim and antagonist. . . . And to instead present humanity and nature as deeply, ultimately, endlessly interconnected. . . . Greenwood offers a rare sentiment in the climate emergency: hope." (Damian Tarnopolsky, The Walrus)

"Greenwood is brilliant. Michael Christie shows a cross section of one family's history, revealing their dark secrets, loves, losses, and the mark of an accident still visible four generations later. Year by year, page by page, the layers of this intricate and elegant novel build into an epic story that is completely absorbing. I had to cancel everything for this book because I couldn't stop reading." (Claire Cameron, author of The Last Neanderthal)

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A very complex and rich work with such obvious reverence for the natural world and trees in particular. The writer takes you on a broad sweep from WWI and the dust bowl era to a frightening future where trees are almost extinct. Beautiful writing .

Exceptional and unique

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This is a beautiful narration of a compelling and timely novel. Thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish.

Outstanding

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This is a profound story with deep insights concerning time, family, and human connection. I will continue to listen, read, and reflect upon the lessons given within the pages of this book in the time that remains.

Profound

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This is still stuck with me a week after finishing. I loved every broken character.

Wondeful

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Loved every second of this story. The connection and lessons learned were beautiful. So meaningful and such beautiful writing

Beautiful and captivating story

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From beginning to the very end I loved this book. One of the best book I’ve listen to this year!! I thinking living on Vancouver island helped to understand and appreciate this book maybe a little more.

The twist and turns of the story telling

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I loved this book. All the Canadian context and rich characters. A unique story. Will look for this author again.

Great read!

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Trying new authors can be ‘scary’ but I truly enjoyed this story, I didn’t want it to end.

Loved it

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I've never wanted to know my ancestors stories more. What an epic, richly rendered family saga, rooted in reverence of our dwindling, violated forests.

Actual, Masterful Storytelling

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Loved everything about the novel. Wanted an epilogue but I guess that speaks to its success when you do not want the story to end.

The craft and the wizardry of plot/ character

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