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Nectar Fragments
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ISBN10: 1425913865
ISBN13: 9781425913861
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Jun 28 2006
Pages: 564
Weight: 1.33
Height: 1.26 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781425913861
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Jun 28 2006
Pages: 564
Weight: 1.33
Height: 1.26 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The four stories of Part I vary in setting from Shinobazu Pond to 19th-century Germany, where Dostoevsky toils in despairing, poverty-stricken exile on Crime and Punishment. The Nectar Fragments of Part II are linked short stories set in the fictional Montreal suburb of Nectar, where an aging recluse living like a prisoner in the house in which he grew up struggles to recast the story of Abraham and Isaac into modern form. Was Abraham a saint, or a murderer? No one suspected the recluse himself had a son - who one day appears, seemingly out of nowhere...
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