What Is Written on the Tongue

What Is Written on the Tongue
Anne Lazurko
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Trade Paperback
h216 x 140mm - 336pg
26 Apr 2022 CAN
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9781770416192
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For readers of Anthony Doerr' sAll the Light We Cannot Seeand Tim O' Brien' sThe Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonisationReleased from Nazi forced labor as World War II ends, 20-year-old Sam is quickly drafted and sent to the island of Java to help regain control of the colony. But the Indonesian independence movement is far ahead of the Dutch, and Sam is thrown into a guerilla war, his loyalties challenged when his squad commits atrocities reminiscent of those he suffered at the hands of the Nazis. Sam falls in love with both Sari and the beautiful island she calls home, but as he loses friends to sniper fire and jungle malady, he also loses sight of what he wants most - to be a good man. ' Teeming with life and drama, What Is Written on the Tongue is an ambitious, sweeping, riveting story of war, immorality, love and family. Spanning The Netherlands, Germany and Indonesia during and after the Second World War, Anne Lazurko' s novel serves as a grim reminder that the oppressed sometimes become oppressors. The novel hooked me on the first page and captured me to the last. ' - Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes and The Illegal' What Is Written on the Tongue is a gripping story of frailty and resilience. Anne Lazurko' s novel is a fully engaged, deeply researched study of one man' s struggle to retain his humanity amid the many tragedies of war. ' - Helen Humphreys, author of Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium
"What Is Written on the Tongue is a gripping story of frailty and resilience. Anne Lazurko' s novel is a fully engaged, deeply researched study of one man' s struggle to retain his humanity amid the many tragedies of war. " -- Helen Humphreys, author of Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium "In this deft and deeply moving novel, Anne Lazurko disperses the fog of war to shine a light on one soldier' s process of reckoning. As Sam confronts the enemy without and within, his creator honours the terrible vulnerability of our bodies, the essential balm of love and friendship, and the life-affirming beauty of the natural world, all the while lamenting the hell we so often make of this paradise we call home. " -- Alissa York, author of The Naturalist "Teeming with life and drama, What Is Written on the Tongue is an ambitious, sweeping, riveting story of war, immorality, love and family. Spanning The Netherlands, Germany and Indonesia during and after the Second World War, Anne Lazurko' s novel serves as a grim reminder that the oppressed sometimes become oppressors. The novel hooked me on the first page and captured me to the last. " -- Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes and The Illegal "What is Written on the Tongue isn' t an easy novel, but I highly recommend that you read it, because what it asks us to do is remember, not only the past, but also that the better angels of our own natures can transform into demons, given the right circumstances. " -- Prairie Fire "This novel is the vivid and gripping story of a man caught in two brutal occupations: Sam is first a young victim of the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands in World War Two. He then becomes a colonial perpetrator as a Dutch soldier in the occupying army of Indonesia in the late forties. He suffers and then he deals out suffering. In this moving novel, Sam must search for a way to navigate his way through moral quagmires and find some kind of peace for himself and the ones he loves. " -- Antanas Sileika, author of Provisionally Yours
Anne Lazurko' s first novel, Dollybird, won the WILLA Award for Historical Fiction. She has short fiction and poetry published in literary magazines and anthologies and is an active teacher, editor, and mentor in the prairie writing community. An award-winning journalist and no-awards farmer, she lives near Weyburn, Saskatchewan.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781770416192
Published: 26 Apr 2022
Published In: Canada
Imprint: ECW Press Canada
Publisher: ECW Press Canada
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 336

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