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Book SynopsisThe tale of Charles Marden, an apple grower and judge who sets off from his Vancouver Island home on an impulsive journey to Belgium, where his son has died in battle. Marden's mission is to find the exact spot where his son was killed. This is a story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope in a time of war.
Trade ReviewGripping, damning, and transfixing. - Entertainment Weekly ""... possesses a time-bending gravity.... [A] small classic of graceful language and earned emotion."" - San Francisco Chronicle ""... a beautifully written novel of war and the wrenching grief and unanswerable questions it leaves in its wake.... A Century of November is full of precise, startling imagery and elegant, richly poetic description - Wetherell seems genuinely incapable of writing a lazy sentence - and this last section of the novel is as surreal, hypnotic and harrowing as any literature in recent memory. The whole thing, in fact, is a jewel, an unforgettable historical novel that Wetherell has carefully (and artfully) seeded with loads of contemporary resonance."" - Minneapolis Star-Tribune
