Stranger
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- ISBN: 1443450979
- ISBN: 9781443450973
- Physical Description 253 pages
- Edition First edition.
- Publisher Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., [2016]
- Copyright ©2016
Content descriptions
General Note: | After an affair with an American doctor Iso finds herself pregnant and alone in Sierra Madre de Chiapas. When she gives birth her daughter is taken from her and she is informed she is being moved to America. Iso sets out to reclaim her stolen daughter. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 29.99 |
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Summary
Stranger : A Novel
From Giller prize-winning author of The Time in Between and Canada Reads finalist for The Age of Hope comes a stirring tale that lays bare the bonds of motherhood, revealing just how far a mother will go to reclaim her stolen child. #65533;so, a young Guatemalan woman, works at a fertility clinic at Ixchel, in the highlands of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas. She tends to the rich northern women who visit the clinic hoping that the waters of the nearby lake might increase their chances of conception. Like many of the women working at the clinic, #65533;so is aware of the resident American doctor, Eric Mann. Soon #65533;so is his secret lover, stealing away with Dr. Mann on long motorcycle rides through the mountains and enjoying beach vacations with Eric and his doctor friends. But their tryst does not last long. Dr. Mann decides he will return to the US, and a freak accident cuts the couple's time together even shorter. Before #65533;so can tell Dr. Mann that she is pregnant, he is gone. After the birth of her daughter, the baby is taken from her. The director of the clinic informs #65533;so that her child is in America. Determined to reclaim her stolen daughter, #65533;so makes her way north through Mexico, eventually crossing illegally into a United States divided into military zones. Travelling without documentation, and with little money, #65533;so descends into a world full of danger. In a place of shifting boundaries, #65533;so must determine who she can trust and how much, aware that she might lose her daughter forever. The profound intelligence and political resonance we have come to expect from Bergen sit front and centre in Stranger, contributing to the growing legacy of this Giller Prize-winning author. With its themes of dislocation and disruption, of power and vulnerability, of rich and of poor, Stranger is a powerfully resonant political novel for our times.