Under This Unbroken Sky
By (Author) Shandi Mitchell
Orion Publishing Co
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
1st July 2010
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book (Africa Region) 2010 (UK)
Paperback
416
Width 164mm, Height 198mm, Spine 32mm
388g
Spring, 1938. Teodor returns home after nearly two years spent in prison for the crime of trying to feed his children. Now, he and his family are determined not only to survive, but to build a better life for themselves.
But it is not just the unrelenting landscape that Teodor must fight against. His sister's husband has an unforgivable plan that threatens to take everything away from them.Nearly all is lost when a brother is pitted against a sister and a mother against her child, with dramatic and heartbreaking consequences.'A beautiful story about two families who have nothing, yet manage to strip each other of everything.' - Easy Living.
'Utterly gripping, beautifully pitched and unsentimental in execution. Brilliant.' - Marie Claire.Shandi Mitchell spent her childhood on a military base in the Prairies but now lives on the East Coast of Canada. Under this Unbroken Sky is her first novel.