Afterlands
jun 2010 · Vintage Canada
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From acclaimed writer Steven Heighton comes an utterly compelling story set in an age of rising nationalism and growing intolerance. Afterlands re-imagines the true story of two men and a woman who, along with sixteen unlucky companions, were cast adrift on an ice floe after the 1872 Polaris expedition failed. Roland Kruger, a German immigrant, finds himself drawn to the mysterious Inuit woman Tukulito, while George Tyson, the compromised leader of the expedition, faces a mutiny as supplies run low. But it is only when Tyson publishes his dangerously dishonest account of the polar events a few years afterward that the full effects of those tragic months of hardship and deprivation are felt.
Afterlands is a novel rich with unrequited love, divided loyalty and unsettled scores. This novel is a triumph of storytelling from one of Canada’s most acclaimed writers. Gripping and beautiful, it is a scintillating exploration of the extremes of human experience. Afterlands brilliantly examines both a devastating encounter with the natural world and the unrelenting demands of the human heart.
Afterlands is a novel rich with unrequited love, divided loyalty and unsettled scores. This novel is a triumph of storytelling from one of Canada’s most acclaimed writers. Gripping and beautiful, it is a scintillating exploration of the extremes of human experience. Afterlands brilliantly examines both a devastating encounter with the natural world and the unrelenting demands of the human heart.
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STEVEN HEIGHTON was the author of the novel Afterlands, which has been nominated for the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award and was a Globe and Mail, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Province, and Vancouver Sun Best Book in 2005. Afterlands subsequently appeared in the United States, where it was a New York Times Book Review and a Historical Novels Review Editors’ Choice; in Britain, where it was a Scotland on Sunday, Glasgow Herald, Independent and TheSocialEdge.com Book of the Year; and in Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands. He was also the author of The Shadow Boxer, which was a Canadian bestseller and a Publishers’ Weekly Book of the Year in 2002. His other fiction books include the story collections Flight Paths of the Emperor and On earth as it is, while his poetry collections include The Ecstasy of Skeptics and The Address Book.
His work has been translated into ten languages, internationally anthologized and nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize and Britain’s W.H. Smith Award. He has also won the Lampert Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award and gold medals for fiction and for poetry in the National Magazine Awards. In 2002/03 he was the writer-in-residence at Concordia University; in 2004 he was the Massey College writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto. Steven Heighton died in 2022.
His work has been translated into ten languages, internationally anthologized and nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize and Britain’s W.H. Smith Award. He has also won the Lampert Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award and gold medals for fiction and for poetry in the National Magazine Awards. In 2002/03 he was the writer-in-residence at Concordia University; in 2004 he was the Massey College writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto. Steven Heighton died in 2022.
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