"Some Unfinished Business is a powerful, moving, and page-turning examination of loyalty, betrayal, retribution and ultimately, love, written by an acclaimed author at the height of his powers."
- Gary Barwin, Governor General's- and Giller-shortlisted author of Yiddish for Pirates and Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted
Is love more compelling than justice? A wife pleads for love. Her husband longs for revenge.
Gripping and evocative, Some Unfinished Business tells the story of a young man who is determined to prevail through anti-Soviet resistance in occupied Lithuania, imprisonment in the Gulag, and the icy hands of bureaucracy that attempt to thwart his love for a woman with a mysterious past - all while chasing the back of the man who dared him to dream in the first place.
At fourteen, Martin Averka met a teacher from the city who inspired him to seek out the wide world beyond his small village of Lyn Lake. Years later, having lived under the tyranny of an autocratic system populated by cowards and bullies and seeking revenge, he breaks into the Pazaislis Monastery Asylum to confront face-to-face the man from his youth who betrayed his friends and colleagues a decade before.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Antanas Sileika is such an intelligent and compassionate writer. His latest novel Some Unfinished Business, evokes post World War II Lithuania, the land of lingering ghosts where the past poisons the future. A gripping story of shattering betrayals and fragile hope." -- Eva Stachniak, author of The School of Mirrors "Martin's epic life story, and in particular the electrifying reunion with his one-time mentor, is evidence of a writer with deep insight into the human condition. Sileika showcases his knack for building worlds that feel spellbindingly intimate while encompassing sweeping historical storytelling, much of it pulled from meticulous research." * Open Book * "Sileika has combined history and fiction in a way that makes the events of mid-20th century Lithuania relevant and interesting, regardless of the current political situation in eastern Europe." -- Susan Huebert * Winnipeg Free Press * "Sileika is no longer just a storyteller - although he has always been a master. In this book, he is a mature novelist, drawing us in to his world of well-researched knowledge and vivid imagination with succinct language, precise detail and insight." * Teviskes ziburiai * "In Some Unfinished Business, Antanas Sileika employs several effective strategies for creating suspense. . . . Some Unfinished Business largely resists easy answers. In addition to vividly portraying the everyday struggles of life under Soviet rule, it explores questions of complicity and innocence with nuance." -- Marisa Grizenko * Literary Review of Canada *
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Broschur/Paperback
mit Klappen
Maße
Höhe: 214 mm
Breite: 136 mm
Dicke: 26 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-77086-673-7 (9781770866737)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Antanas Sileika is a Canadian author of five previous books of fiction as well as a memoir. Working as a Canadian journalist of Lithuanian descent, he became involved with the movement to restore Lithuania's independence from the Soviet Union. His collection of short stories, Buying on Time, was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour and the Toronto Book Award and long-listed for CBC's Canada Reads in 2016. His books have repeatedly received starred reviews from Quill & Quire and been listed as among the one hundred best books of the year in the Globe and Mail. He has reviewed books for print, radio, and television and he served as the director of the Humber School for Writers until retiring in 2017. He currently lives in Toronto, ON.
