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We should not be afraid of the sky : a novel
- Title
- We should not be afraid of the sky : a novel / Emma Hooper.
- Author
- Hooper, Emma
- Publication
- Toronto : Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, 2022.
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-3141 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 339 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "During the golden age of the Roman Empire, five young girls enjoy a modest childhood in their small Portuguese village. They race each other through lemon orchards and pick fresh fruit for the commander who overlooks his people from a large house on the hill. Though the girls are all raised by different families, there is one thing they know without a doubt: they are sisters. What they don't know is that their simple existence is about to be irrevocably changed. When soldiers abduct them from their village and bring them to the commander, the sisters are suddenly forced to confront long-buried secrets that reveal their lives to be anything but ordinary. Burgeoning on womanhood just as the Empire begins to show signs of crumbling around them, they soon find themselves at the centre of a deadly standoff and must part ways to fight their own battles if they're to have any chance of surviving. One of Emma Hooper's most compelling novels yet, We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky is bursting at the seams with abstract miracles, devastating tenderness, hope, desire, and treachery--with life and death in all their glory. Demonstrating both the force and fragility of human nature, Hooper urges us to consider how we'll each face our own final hour, to examine what the end really means: is it something to fear, or is it a daring leap into the blaze of a new beginning?"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Historical fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Contents
- Quiteria -- Marina -- Gema -- Germana -- Liberata -- Basilissa -- Vitoria -- Eumelia -- Genebra.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-3141
- ISBN
- 9780735232747
- 0735232741
- OCLC
- 1266187841
- Author
- Hooper, Emma, author.
- Title
- We should not be afraid of the sky : a novel / Emma Hooper.
- Publisher
- Toronto : Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Hooper, Emma. We should not be afraid of the sky. Toronto : Penguin Canada, 2022 073523275X 9780735232754 (OCoLC)1266187963
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-3141