Light on snow

• Auteur : Anita Shreve
• • Editeur : Abacus 2004
  • ISBN/ISSN : 978-0-349-11856-7
  • Format : 301 p.
  • Langues : Anglais
• • Nature du document : fiction
  • Résumé :

    I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams, unable to make the legs move fast enough. I ran to the place where he knelt. I looked down into the sleeping bag. A tiny face gazed up at me, the eyes wide despite their many folds. The baby was wrapped in a bloody towel, and its lips were blue.'
    The events of a December afternoon on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow will forever alter eleven-year-old Nicky Dillon's understanding of the world which she is about to enter and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put behind him an unthinkable tragedy; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is superseded only by his sense of justice. Written from the point of view of thirty-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, hers is a tale of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself.
    

• • Descripteurs :

    Motbis

    20e siècle / Etats-Unis / littérature étrangère
  • Index. décimale : R(A) (Romans en anglais)