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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
August 16, 2016 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Wednesday, August 17th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE GOLDEN AGE by Joan London, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
You can take a look at all the books we're giving away in this year's Summer Reading contests on our Pinterest page here.
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE GOLDEN AGE by Joan London
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Winner of the 2015 Prime Minister's Award for Fiction
Joan London, author of GILGAMESH, gives her readers an immensely satisfying and generous-hearted story about displacement, recovery, resilience and love with THE GOLDEN AGE.
Thirteen-year-old Frank Gold’s family, Hungarian Jews, escape the perils of World War II to the safety of Australia in the 1940s. But not long after their arrival, Frank is diagnosed with polio. He is sent to a sprawling children’s hospital called The Golden Age, where he meets Elsa, the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, a girl who radiates pure light. Frank and Elsa fall in love, fueling one another’s rehabilitation, facing the perils of polio and adolescence hand in hand, and scandalizing the prudish staff of The Golden Age.
Meanwhile, Frank and Elsa’s parents must cope with their changing realities. Elsa’s mother Margaret, who has given up everything to be a perfect mother, must reconcile her hopes and dreams with her daughter’s sickness. Frank’s parents, transplants to Australia from a war-torn Europe, are isolated newcomers in a country that they do not love and that does not seem to love them. Frank’s mother Ida, a renowned pianist in Hungary, refuses to allow the western deserts of Australia to become her home. But her husband, Meyer, slowly begins to free himself from the past and integrate into a new society.
With tenderness and humor, THE GOLDEN AGE tells a deeply moving story about illness and recovery. It is a book about learning to navigate the unfamiliar, about embracing music, poetry, death and, most importantly, life.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to watch the book trailer.
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Click here to enter the contest by Wednesday, August 17th at 11:59am ET. |
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