The Book of Rain
A Novel
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST, ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE
"Audaciously imaginative. . . . I wish more books surprised me as much as this one did."—Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise
"Wondrous."—Eden Robinson, author of the Trickster trilogy
A groundbreaking, deeply affecting work of environmental literary suspense for fans of Cloud Atlas, The Overstory, and Greenwood.
The northern mining town of River Meadows is one of three hotspots in the world producing ghost ore, a new source of energy linked with slippages of time and space that gradually render the area uninhabitable. After the town is evacuated, the whole region is cordoned off, the new no-go zone wryly nicknamed "the Park."
Three intertwined stories flow from that disaster.
Years after Alex…
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June 11, 2024THOMAS WHARTON has been published in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., France, Italy, Japan and other countries. His first novel, Icefields, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book Canada and the Caribbean and was also a 2008 CBC Canada Reads pick. His next book, Salamander, was shortlisted for the 2001 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize the same year. In 2006, Wharton’s collection of stories, The Logogryph, was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His latest novel, The Book of Rain, was a finalist for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2024 Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and has sold…
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