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Islands of the dying light / Rolf Lappert ; translated from the German by Eugene H. Hayworth.
- Title
- Islands of the dying light / Rolf Lappert ; translated from the German by Eugene H. Hayworth.
- Author
- Lappert, Rolf, 1958-
- Publication
- Boulder, CO : Owl Canyon Press, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PT2672.A66 A9413 2012 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Hayworth, Eugene H.
- Description
- 565 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Tobey and his older sister Megan, raised in poverty in Ireland, are abandoned by their mother while Tobey is still a baby. Years later, Tobey sets off for Dublin. He does not return to the village until he learns about the death of his father; when Tobey arrives for the funeral he discovers that Megan has already departed. The story alternates between Tobey's search for his sister, and a series of letters from Megan that document her life in London as an animal rights activist, her marriage and divorce, and her work as a veterinarian on a sparsely populated island in the Philippines. Tobey follows in his sister's footsteps, but when he finally arrives on the island, Megan has vanished. In his effort to unravel the mystery of her disappearance, Tobey discovers a sinister purpose behind the island's dilapidated laboratories and its enigmatic inhabitants.
- Uniform Title
- Auf den Inseln des letzten Lichts. English
- Alternative Title
- Auf den Inseln des letzten Lichts.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945
- Belletristische Darstellung.
- Note
- A novel.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0983476411 (pbk.)
- 9780983476412 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 809415750
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library