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Highlights
- In the summer of 1914 Alec Marquand has just graduated from college and has been hired by the lord of a remote country estate in the Scottish Highlands to survey the ancient Iron Age brochs that lie on his property.
- About the Author: Martin Booth is a critically acclaimed novelist, children's writer, and a documentary and feature film writer.
- 304 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, War & Military
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From the author of the Booker shortlisted "Industry of Souls" comes a gripping novel of a World War I veteran who shuts himself off from the world.Book Synopsis
In the summer of 1914 Alec Marquand has just graduated from college and has been hired by the lord of a remote country estate in the Scottish Highlands to survey the ancient Iron Age brochs that lie on his property. Once there Alec comes upon a small island which is called Eileen Tosdach--the Island of Silence. Just as Alec makes his amazing find, he is shipped off to war, sent to storm the beaches of Gallipoli. From the author of the Booker shortlisted The Industry of Souls, this is a gripping tour through one man's hell in search of a path for redemption.
From the Back Cover
Praise for Martin Booth's" Industry of Souls"As we accompany Bayliss on a tour through his present and past, this meditative, unadorned novel, short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1998, raises questions about home, freedom, and the meaning of a life that resonate long after the final page is turned." --"The New York Times Book Review
"This is often lyrical and nimble, and accomplishes the not insignificant task of entertaining and enlightening by means of literary narrative."--"The Boston Book Review
"This fabric of contrasts is astonishing, as accomplished as anything in recent fiction. . . . Booth has created a world in which the best and the worst of life not only exist side by side but are inextricably linked--a world perhaps not unlike our own."--"The Seattle Times
""The Industry of Souls surpasses other novels that rest in depicting the many horrors of gulag life." --"Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Review Quotes
"Haunting...quickly sucks the reader in....It's impossible not to be moved." --The Washington Post Book World
"The book's strength comes from a well-orchestrated sense of mystery that pulls us into the story and continually keeps us off balance....Written with an admirably contained fury." --Newsday "As emotionally stark as it is magnetic...Compelling and, ultimately, illuminating." --Denver Post "[A] haunting new novel....Islands of Silence cuts to the quick. It is a powerful meditation on the sanctity of life and the devastation of war. Particularly at this juncture in world affairs, its resonance is profound. Read it and weep." --Seattle Post-IntelligencerAbout the Author
Martin Booth is a critically acclaimed novelist, children's writer, and a documentary and feature film writer. He is the author of thirteen novels, including A Very Private Gentleman, The Industry of Souls, and Hiroshima Joe. He lives in Devon, England.