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Carry Me Across the Water

By Ethan Canin

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| Paperback | 9780747557906

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Breathtaking in its suspense and beauty, Carry Me Across the Water is the story of a man’s turbulent journey, with his family, through the central years of the twentieth century. Young August Kleinman escapes from Nazi Germany to America, where his mother’s words—“TakeContinue

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Carry Me Across the Water Ethan Canin 206pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99 Augie Kleinman, the narrator of Ethan Canin's fourth novel, is not a great traveller. A retired millionaire, he has taken just one holiday in his life (to Barbados, which proves a revela ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

Carry Me Across the Water By Ethan Canin

than Canin leads readers on a journey across time and spaceEthan Canin wants you to read between the lines. A wordsmith who at 27 dazzled critics with his debut short story collection Emperor of the Air, Canin has learned an appreciation of the tacit ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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August Kleinman fled Nazi Germany as a child, to build a brewery empire in post-war America. An encounter with a Japanese soldier in WW II shaped his life, and as the end of his life draws near he is inexorably pulled towards the other side of the ocean to make peace with his past.
Gorgeous bo ... (continue)

August Kleinman fled Nazi Germany as a child, to build a brewery empire in post-war America. An encounter with a Japanese soldier in WW II shaped his life, and as the end of his life draws near he is inexorably pulled towards the other side of the ocean to make peace with his past.
Gorgeous book suffused with Jewish culture and personal struggle. In addition, it is probably the most tender and believable love story I have read in a long time.

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