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The Singing Fire
Publisher US: Scribner; (Feb 2004)
ISBN: 0743249666
Publisher Canada: Knopf Canada (Jan 20, 2004)
ISBN: 067697600X

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The River Midnight

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Lilian Nattel, the author of the bestselling novel The River Midnight ushers us from 19th-century Eastern Europe into the underbelly of London in this sweeping, fin-de-siècle saga of two immigrant women, the adoptive mother and the birth-mother of the
child who unites them.  More>>

The River Midnight
Publisher US: Scribner; (January 1999)
ISBN: 0684853035
Publisher Canada: Vintage Canada (April 4, 2000)
ISBN: 0676972608

Myth meets history in Blaszka, a fictional village northwest of Warsaw, where angels and demons walk in the fin de siècle shadows, enticing the people of Blaszka to face their deepest wishes and fears. Listen. You can hear the excitement in the village square, the flimsy stalls piled high, and in the centre Misha the midwife laughing.  More>>

 

 


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