In the fabled east / Adam Lewis Schroeder.
"A sweeping literary adventure set against the backdrop of French Indochina. Paris, 1909: Ad©lie Tremier, a young widow suffering the final stages of tuberculosis, flees for French-occupied Indochina, through the lush forests of Laos, to seek out a fabled spring of immortality that might allow her to return to her nine-year-old son. Laos, 1936: Pierre Lazarie, a young academic turned Saigon bureaucrat, is sent by Ad©lie<U+2019>s son, now an Army captain, to find his longlost mother. Although his assigned quest fulfills Pierre<U+2019>s fantasy to travel up the exotic Mekong, he is saddled with his colleague Henri LeDallic, an Indochina old-timer who would rather glory in his loutish past than hunt for ghosts in the jungle. Yet what this mismatched pair discovers forms the mysterious heart of Adam Lewis Schroeder<U+2019>s brilliant and compelling new novel. Bridging history from 1890s Aix-en-Provence to American involvement in 1950s Vietnam, In the Fabled East is a rich and sensual depiction of Southeast Asia, charting the loss of innocence of both individuals and the world at large."--Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781553658122 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1553654641
- ISBN: 9781553654643 :
- Physical Description: 408 p. : map ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, c2010.
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Subject: | Widows > Fiction. Terminally ill > Fiction. Mothers and sons > Fiction. Paris (France) > Fiction Indochina > Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Adventure fiction. Historical fiction. Canadian fiction. > Canadian fiction. Canadian fiction. |
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Radium Hot Springs Public Library | FIC SCH (Text) | 25130000001889 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Fernie Heritage Library | FIC SCH (Text) | 35136000539560 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Fort St. John Public Library | AF SCH (Text) | 35211000028250 | ADULT Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Rossland Public Library | FIC SCH (Text) | 35162000015682 | Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-10-25 |
Smithers Public Library | F SCH (Text) | 35101000294822 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Trail and District Public Library Main Branch | F SCH (Text) | 35110001167846 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |