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The
Unyielding Clamour of the Night
by Neil Bissoondath
Novel
ISBN:
978-1-896951-87-4
5.5" x 8.5"
Hardcover
$32.95
360 pages
BISAC Codes
FIC019000
Fiction/Literary
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The
Unyielding Clamour of the Night
by Neil Bissoondath
Winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
of the Quebec Writers' Federation, 2005.
A young man of privileged upbringing leaves his home in the prosperous
north of his island nation to teach in the devastated south, where
a civil war festers. Over the course of several months, in which
he befriends many of the town's people and becomes teacher not only
to the town's children but to the enlisted men of the local army
station, he loses his faith in and hope for the future. The
Unyielding Clamour of the Night is a sympathetic novel that
enters the mind and soul of a character to reveal the brutal and
lasting affects of acts of violence, and how violence only begets
violence.
Praise for Doing the Heart Good
"Bissoondath is tone-perfect ... breathtaking ... While our
memory of them may fade over time, Mackenzie and the people in his
world are unlikely to be forgotten."
— The Vancouver Sun
"... a quietly, yet deeply moving new novel ... I wanted to
start it again the moment I got to the end. It truly does do the
heart good."
— Books in Canada
"Bissoondath has written his novel with Dickens in mind. It
is a satisfying, oldfashioned read filled with social commentary,
physical comedy and Alistair's memories of unforgettable people."
— The Gazette (Montreal)
About Neil Bissoondath. |
