The Communist's Daughter

Bock, Dennis

ISBN 10: 000200528X / ISBN 13: 9780002005289

Published by Phyllis Bruce Books Harper Collins Publishers, 2006

About this Item

This book is one of a limited number of copies of the first edition of Dennis Bocks The Communists Daughter signed by the author. The dust jacket has bumped and lightly frayed corners and edges. The spine ends are creased. The hard cover has bumped spine ends that are wrinkled slightly. The bottom corners are ever slightly bumped. The fore-edge is tanned and has some smudges and dirty marks. The inside of his book is lightly tanned.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Communist's Daughter
• Publisher: Phyllis Bruce Books Harper Collins Publishers
• Publication Date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 000200528X
• ISBN 13: 9780002005289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good-
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair--
• Signed: By Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics/Government
  • Signed Copies
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Award-winning writer Dennis Bock returns with an unforgettable novel about a man whose life has touched millions. In The Communist’s Daughter, the legendary Canadian doctor Norman Bethune—visionary, radical, martyr—comes vividly to life. Amidst the death and chaos of the Japanese army’s advance into the northern hills of China, Bethune composes a wrenching letter to his daughter, a small child he has never seen. Her mother, the mysterious Swede named Kajsa he abandoned in war-torn Spain, haunts him. Now, faced with imminent death, the only trained doctor in 100,000 square miles, Bethune must confront the sum of his life.

Set against the tumult of the late 1930s, when ideologies clashed in Spain and China and the world stood poised for global conflict, The Communist’s Daughter is a remarkable depiction of the moral ambiguities of war, political idealism and personal responsibility. Bock’s Bethune is a man of fierce conviction and intense, often unreasoning, loyalty; yet, in the end, will he summon the courage to confess to his daughter the true reason he left her to come to the heart of this life-and-death struggle in the hills of China?

This is storytelling at its best—an elegant, passionate novel that unfolds against the sweep of history as the world, once again, turns towards war.

About the Author

DENNIS BOCK'S first book of stories, Olympia, won the 1998 Canadian Authors’ Association Jubilee Award, the Danuta Gleed Award for best first collection of stories by a Canadian author and the British Betty Trask Award. His first novel, The Ash Garden, was a #1 national bestseller and was shortlisted for the prestigious 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Amazon.com/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Kiriyama Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Caribbean and Canada Region). It won the Japan-Canada Literary Award and the Drummer General’s Award for Fiction. Dennis Bock lives with his family in Toronto. Visit him online atwww.dennisbock.ca.