The Girl in the Water
Published on 17. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
316 pages
978-0-9952878-5-3 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the 2023 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction. A group of young friends, coming of age in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, live day by day with an Afghan war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the collapse of a suffocating society.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9952878-5-3 (9780995287853)
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Persons
Joseph Howse writes fiction, as well as technical books on computer programming and image analysis. He lives in a Nova Scotian fishing village, where he chats with his cats and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. His debut novel, The Girl in the Water, has won the 2023 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction, the 2023 IAN Awards for Outstanding Multicultural Fiction, and the 2023 IPPY Awards Bronze Medal for Best Regional Ebook (Fiction). He is currently working on a sequel.