Baru kemarin
aku menemukan satu lagi historical fiction yang kayaknya menarik, bersetting di
Amerika dan nampaknya sebuah family saga yang banyak mengambil tema alam. Aku
menemukannya di blog Jillian yang saat ini sedang membaca buku yang baru saja
terbit ini. Maka langsung saja aku ambil untuk Wishful Wednesday minggu ini.
The Orchardist
by Amanda
Coplin
Synopsis:
Set in the
untamed American West, a highly original and haunting debut novel about a
makeshift family whose dramatic lives are shaped by violence, love, and an
indelible connection to the land
"The
Orchardist is like one of its characters: 'an egg encased in iron'-an elemental
story filled with the perfection of the natural world. Nearly everybody in the
book compels your admiration, either for their courage or for the heavy work
they do, all the time and without complaint, even when wicked men are hunting them.
Transfixing. I love this book straight through."-Salvatore Scibona, author
of National Book Award Finalist.
You belong
to the earth, and the earth is hard.
At the turn
of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest in the
foothills of the Cascade Mountains, a solitary orchardist named Talmadge
carefully tends the grove of fruit trees he has cultivated for nearly half a
century. A gentle, solitary man, he finds solace and purpose in the sweetness
of the apples, apricots, and plums he grows, and in the quiet, beating heart of
the land-the valley of yellow grass bordering a deep canyon that has been his
home since he was nine years old. Everything he is and has known is tied to
this patch of earth. It is where his widowed mother is buried, taken by illness
when he was just thirteen, and where his only companion, his beloved teenaged
sister Elsbeth, mysteriously disappeared. It is where the horse
wranglers-native men, mostly Nez Perce-pass through each spring with their wild
herds, setting up camp in the flowering meadows between the trees.
Menarik
kayaknya…
Adakah buku
yang kamu inginkan minggu ini? Masukin Wishful Wednesday yuk! Beberapa kali
buku incaranku akhirnya aku dapatkan setelah masuk WW lho! :)
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- Buat posting mengenai buku-buku (boleh lebih dari 1) yang jadi inceran kalian minggu ini, mulai dari yang bakal segera dibeli, sampai yang paling mustahil dan hanya sebatas mimpi. Oya, sertakan juga alasan kenapa buku itu masuk dalam wishlist kalian ya!
- Tinggalkan link postingan Wishful Wednesday kalian di Mr. Linky (klik saja tombol Mr. Linky di bagian bawah post). Kalau mau, silakan tambahkan button Wishful Wednesday di posting kalian.
- Mari saling berkunjung ke sesama blogger yang sudah ikut share wishlistnya di hari Rabu =)
ahhh ini keren banget bukunyaaa...unik banget settingnya, jadi penasaraaan....belakangan lagi semangat hisfic2an nih mba aku =)
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