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The Signal Flame: A Novel
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The stunning second novel from National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivkan extraordinarily elegant writer, with a deep awareness of the natural world (The New York Times Book Review)tells the heartbreaking, captivating story about a family awaiting the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War.In a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania, Hannah and her son Bo mourn the loss of the family patriarch, Jozef. They were three generations under one roof; a warhaunted family in a wartorn century. Jozef was conscripted into the AustroHungarian army in World War I. His Americanborn daughters husband, Bexhet, an immigrant, fights in World War IIreturning to Dardan, Pennsylvania, only to be taken in a hunting accident on Hannahs familys land. Finally, Hannahs younger son, Sam, goes MIA in Vietnam.And so there is only Bo, a quiet man full of sorrow and conviction and a firstborns sense of duty. He is left to grieve but also to hope for reunion, to fall in love and create a new life, to embrace the land and work its mountain soil. The Signal Flame is a stirring explorationthe second standalone novel in a trilogy that began with the National Book Award finalist The Sojournof generations of men and the events that define them, brothers who take different paths, the old European values yielding to new world ways, and the convalescence of memory and war.Beginning shortly after Easter in 1972 and ending on Christmas Eveas the Vietnam War winds downthis ambitious novel honors the cycles of earth and body, humming with blood and passion, and it confirms as a writer of extraordinary vision and power. Andrew Krivks The Signal Flame is a complex and layered portrait of a time and place, and a family shaped, generation after generation, by the memory of war (The Boston Globe).
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